O presente trabalho apresenta, primeiramente, o desenvolvimento e aplicação de uma Ferramenta de Apoio à Decisão (FAD), seguindo os conceitos de Sistemas de Informação (SI), para facilitar o acesso e visualização de informações técnicas estratégicas, e que possa compor um Sistema de Apoio à Decisão (SAD) que englobe o portfólio de informações necessárias para o planejamento da priorização de obras de investimento e expansão das redes de distribuição de energia. A FAD proposta realiza o tratamento de um grupo de dados relativos a incidência de interrupções de energia da rede de distribuição de uma concessionária do setor elétrico, de forma a disponibilizar as informações depuradas para auxílio na tomada assertiva de decisão para aplicação de recursos para execução de ações de manutenção em rede de distribuição. Em seguida, exibe a inclusão de uma função de análise, no aplicativo desenvolvido como Ferramenta de Apoio à Decisão (FAD), baseada na priorização multicriterial AHP (Analytic Hierarchy Process). A aplicação do método AHP indica as estações avançadas da concessionária que possuem prioridade para a aplicação de recursos que visam à execução de ações de manutenção em rede de distribuição para a melhoria nos indicadores de continuidades do fornecimento de energia. / This paper first introduces the development and application of a Decision Support Tool (FAD), following the concepts of Information Systems (IS), to facilitate the availability and visualization of strategic techniques information, and can compose a Decision Support System (DSS) that encompasses the entire portfolio of information needed for planning the prioritization of investment works and expansion of power distribution networks. The proposed FAD performs the treatment of a group of data on the incidence of power outages in the distribution of the electric utility industry network in order to provide information to aid in purified assertive decision making for application of resources for execution maintenance actions in the distribution network. Then displays the inclusion of an analysis function, the application developed as a Tool for Decision Support (FAD), multicriteria prioritization based on AHP (Analytic Hierarchy Process). The application of AHP method indicates the advanced utility stations that have priority for use of funds aimed at the implementation of maintenance actions in the distribution network to improve the indicators of continuity of power supply.

The Electricity Distribution Industry (EDI) in South Africa is in the process of restructuring into six Regional Electricity Distributors (REDs). This would entail the merging of the national electricity utility, Eskom Distribution with municipalities to consolidate skills and to improve on efficiencies. This integration would involve the assimilation of not only physical assets but also various organisational cultures into a separate organisation responsible for supplying electricity services within its designated geographical area. A separate challenge facing Eskom is an intensive capital expansion program to increase generation capacity which will require a committed workforce to execute. Organisational culture has been regarded as leading to greater productivity and generating commitment to the values and philosophies of the organisation. The purpose of the research was to determine whether there was a significant relationship between the organisational culture, organisational commitment and employee performance in Eskom Southern Region. In order to achieve this purpose a survey was undertaken (N=83) which measured perceptions regarding the existing organisational culture, preferred organisational culture as well as organisational commitment. Performance rating scores were linked to each respondent and were obtained from the performance management process of Eskom Southern Region. The main findings of this research can be summarised as follows: • The dominant existing organisational culture in Eskom Southern Region is the power culture, while the dominant preferred organisational culture is the achievement culture. • There is a significant organisational culture gap between the existing and the preferred organisational culture in Eskom Southern Region. • The dominant organisational commitment within Eskom Southern Region is affective commitment together with normative commitment. • The findings related to the employee performance include: o A slight but significant negative relationship was measured between the existing achievement culture and employee performance. o No significant relationships were measured between the preferred cultures and employee performance. o No significant relationships were measured between the organisational commitment scales and employee performance. • The findings pertaining to the relationship between organisational culture and organisational commitment can be stated as follows: o A significant positive linear relationship between the existing achievement culture and affective commitment was measured. A strong, significant negative linear relationship between the existing power culture and the affective commitment was also measured. o No significant relationships were measured between the preferred organisational cultures and organisational commitment. o The organisational culture gap has a significant effect on the organisational commitment of employees. • The findings pertaining to the relationship between the biographical variables and the organisational culture, organisational commitment and employee performance can be stated as follows: o There exists a strong significant relationship between the years of service and the existing organisational culture scales. o No significant relationships exist between the preferred organisational culture scales and any of the biographical variables. There was a common agreement across all respondents on the preferred organisational culture. o A significant relationship was found between organisational commitment and the number of people supervised. o A slight but significant positive linear relationship between the age of respondents and employee performance ratings was measured. It can therefore be concluded that the type of organisational culture has a significant impact on the level of affective commitment of the employees within Eskom Southern Region. No significant positive relationship was found between organisational commitment and organisational performance in Eskom Southern Region.

MPM / Oliver Tambo Institute of Governance and Policy Studies

Composite indicators, also called indices, are widely used synthetic measures for ranking and benchmarking alternatives across complex concepts. The aim of constructing a composite indicator is, among other things, to simplify and condense the information of a plurality of underlying indicators. However, to avoid misleading results, it is important to ensure that the construction is performed in a transparent and representative manner. To this end, this thesis aims to aid the construction of the Electricity Supply Resilience Index (ESRI) – which is a novel energy index, developed within the Future Resilient Systems (FRS) programme at the Singapore-ETH Centre (SEC) – by looking at the complementary and fundamental component of index aggregation, namely the weighting of the indicators. Normally, weights are assigned to reflect the relative importance of each indicator, based on stakeholders’ or decision-makers’ preferences. Consequently, the weights are often perceived to be importance coefficients, independent from the dataset under analysis. However, it has recently been shown that the structure of the dataset and correlations between the indicators often have a decisive effect on each indicator’s importance in the index. In fact, their importance rarely coincides with the assigned weights. This phenomenon is sometimes referred to as implicit weights. The aim of this thesis is to assess the implicit weights in the aggregation of ESRI.  For this purpose, a six-step analytical framework, based on a novel variance-based sensitivity analysis approach, is presented and applied to ESRI. The resulting analysis shows that statistical dependencies between ESRI’s underlying indicators have direct implications on the outcome values – the equal weights assigned a-priori do not correspond to an equal influence from each indicator. Furthermore, when attempting to optimise the weights to balance the contribution of each indicator, it is found that this would require a highly unbalanced set of weights and come at the expense of representing the indicators in an effective manner. Thereby, it can be concluded that there are significant dependencies between the indicators and that their correlations need to be accounted for to achieve a balanced and representative index construction. Guided by these findings, this thesis provides three recommendations for improving the statistical representation and conceptual coherence of ESRI. These include: (1) avoid aggregating a negatively correlated indicator – keep it aside, (2) remove a conceptually problematic indicator – revise its construction or conceptual contribution, and (3) aggregate three collinear and conceptually intersecting indicators into a sub-index, prior to aggregation – limit their overrepresentation. By revising the index according to these three recommendations, it is found that ESRI showcases a greater conceptual and statistical coherence. It can thus be concluded that the analytical framework, proposed in this thesis, can aid the development of representative indices. / Kompositindikatorer (eller index) är populära verktyg som ofta används vid rankning och benchmarking av olika alternativ utifrån komplexa koncept. Syftet med att konstruera ett index är, bland annat, att förenkla och sammanfatta informationen från ett flertal underliggande indikatorer. För att undvika missvisande resultat är det därmed viktigt att konstruera index på ett transparent och representativt sätt. Med detta i åtanke, avser denna uppsats att stödja konstruktionen av Electricity Supply Resilience Index (ESRI) – vilket är ett nyutvecklat energiindex, framtaget inom Future Resilient Systems (FRS) programmet på Singapore-ETH Centre (SEC). Detta görs genom att studera ett vanligt fenomen (s.k. implicita vikter) som gör sig gällande i ett av konstruktionsstegen, då de underliggande indikatorerna ska viktas och aggregeras till ett index. I detta steg tilldelas vanligtvis vikter till de enskilda indikatorerna som ska spegla deras relativa betydelse i indexet. Det har dock nyligen visats att datastrukturen och korrelationer mellan indikatorerna har en avgörande påverkan på varje indikators betydelse i indexet, vilket ibland kan vara helt oberoende av vikten de tilldelats. Detta fenomen kallas ibland för implicita vikter, då de ej är explicit tilldelade utan uppkommer från datastrukturen. Syftet med denna uppsatts är således att undersöka de implicita vikterna i aggregationen av ESRI.  För detta ändamål sker en tillämpning och utökning av en nyutvecklad variansbaserad känslighetsanalys, baserad på olinjär regression, för bedömning av implicita vikter i kompositindikatorer. Resultaten från denna analys visar att statistiska beroenden mellan ESRIs underliggande indikatorer har direkt inverkan på varje indikators betydelse i indexet. Detta medför att vikterna ej överensstämmer med indikatorernas betydelse. Följaktligen utförs en vikt-optimering, för att balansera bidraget från varje indikator. Utifrån resultaten av denna vikt-optimering kan det konstateras att det inte är tänkbart att balansera bidraget från varje indikator genom att justera vikterna. Om så görs, skulle det ske på bekostnad av att kunna representera varje indikator på ett effektivt sätt. Därmed kan slutsatsen dras att det finns tydliga beroenden mellan indikatorer och att deras korrelationerna måste tas i hänsyn för att uppnå en balanserad och representativ indexkonstruktion. Utifrån dessa insikter presenteras tre rekommendationer för att förbättra den statistiska representationen och konceptuella samstämmigheten i ESRI. Dessa innefattar: (1) Undvik att aggregera en negativt korrelerad indikator - behåll den vid sidan av, (2) ta bort en konceptuellt problematisk indikator - revidera dess konstruktion eller konceptuella bidrag, och (3) sammanställ tre kollinära och konceptuellt överlappande indikatorer i ett sub-index, före aggregering - begränsa deras överrepresentation. När dessa rekommendationer implementerats står det klart att den reviderade ESRI påvisar en förbättrad konceptuell och statistisks samstämmighet. Därmed kan det fastställas att det analytiska verktyg som presenteras i denna uppsats kan bidra till utvecklingen av representativa index.

Gegenstand der Dissertation ist die Verantwortung der Kommunen für die Versorgung der örtlichen Bevölkerung mit Elektrizität: Woraus kann sie hergeleitet werden, welche Konsequenzen ergeben sich aus ihr für die Kommunen und welche Bedeutung kommt hierbei der Kooperation mit der Privatwirtschaft zu? Die in drei Teile gegliederte Arbeit befasst sich in ihrem ersten Teil mit den allgemeinen Grundlagen und der Entwicklung kommunaler Elektrizitätsversorgungsunternehmen. Im zweiten Teil geht es um die gesetzlichen Zielvorgaben in der Elektrizitätswirtschaft und die kommunale Verantwortung für ihr Erreichen. Der dritte Teil schließlich befasst sich mit den Voraussetzungen kooperativer Staatstätigkeit und dem Potenzial der Anwendung von Kooperationsmodellen im Bereich der örtlichen Elektrizitätsversorgung. / The dissertation ist focused on the responsibility of municipalities to supply local populations with electricity: Where can it be derived from, what consequences for municipalities arise from it and what role does the cooperation with private sector have in this context? The thesis is divided into three parts; the first part deals with the basic principles and the development of municipal electric utilities. The second part focuses on both statutory normative targets in the electricity supply industry and the municipality's responsibility to achieve them. Finally, the third part discusses the preconditions of cooperative government activity and the potential of cooperation models for application to local power supply.

The introduction of the theoretical part is devoted to the analysis of threats, another part to the rescue of animals. In the next part, I focused on zoological gardens and evacuation of animals. The last chapter of the theoretical part deals with the evacuation of selected species of animals. When selecting individual species, I focused on those that are most represented in Dvorec Zoo. The aim of my thesis was to create an analysis of the preparedness of the selected zoo to selected crisis situations and to identify the risks of evacuation of the zoo. In order to achieve these goals, I have set research questions - how is the zoo prepared for selected crisis situations? And what are the possible risks associated with evacuating selected species? In the second part of my thesis I focused on the research itself, which included an interview with the director of Dvorec Zoo. Based on the interview and my own observation I processed the KARS method. The KARS method has identified 6 risks that could compromise the operation of Dvorec Zoo. These risks include extreme wind, large-scale gas supply disruption, large-scale electricity supply disruption, snow calamity, and extremely low temperatures. Based on the identified risks, I created a plan for MU solution for Dvorec Zoo. In the MU solution plan, I focused primarily on the impacts on operation, planned measures, procedures and responsible people. Dvorec Zoo will, of course, be provided with this plan.

Målet med denna studie var att studera olika aspekter av den prioritetsordning som används för att prioritera elanvändare i svenska elnät i händelse av nationell-, regional eller lokal elbrist. Studien redogör för hur prioriteringar av olika elanvändare går till och hur nyttan av olika elnät förändras utifrån en beslutsfattares egna preferenser, vidare redovisas hur samverkan mellan olika elnät påverkar den totala nyttan som varje invånare i ett samhäller erbjuds. Objekten i ett samhälle som förekommer på ett elnät delas in i åtta prioriteringsklasser beroende av objektets funktion. Området för denna studie har varit beslutsanalys. Studien har genomförts med hjälp av resultat från tidigare studier och teorier kring beslutsanalys, med detta som grund har en simulering genomförts för att påvisa hur nyttan av ett elnät ändras då förutsättningarna ändras. Förutsättningarna har varit; total kapacitet av elektricitet till samhället, avstånd mellan samhällen och de olika objektens efterfrågan av elektricitet. Studiens resultat har påvisat att ellinjer med objekt av hög prioriteringsklass ska prioriteras före ellinjer med objekt av låg prioriteringsklass. Vidare har studien visat att det kan finnas elnät i ett samhälle vars nytta skulle kunna vara större än de elnät som förespråkas av prioritetsordningen, och att dessa kan vara disjunkta. Detta för att prioriteringsordningen ska prioritera det elnät med högprioriterade objekt, inte nödvändigtvis det elnät med störst nytta. Studie har därmed resulterat i att elnät bör prioriteras efter dess nytta och att en beslutsfattare bör vara medveten om elbristens storlek, avstånd mellan samhällen och varje objekts efterfrågan av kapacitet för att kunna fatta ett bra beslut. Gällande samverkan mellan elnät visade studien på att detta kan genomföras om avståndet mellan samhällena inte var för stort. / The aim of this study was to study the Styrel concept as an approach to identify electricity users and prioritize them in the event of a power shortage on a power grid. The study has examined and investigated how the priorities of different electricity users go to, how the benefits of manual disconnection change according to the decision makers' different priorities and how interaction between different local networks affects total utility. The features of a community on a local area, also called objects, are divided into eight priority classes depending on the function of the objects. The area for this study has been decision management. The study has been conducted using results from previous studies and theories on decision analysis as the basis for constructing a simulator that simulates how the power of a power failure changes for a local area dependent on the extent of the electricity supply (capacity). The study's findings have shown that prioritization of electricity supply line with higher priority classes should be prioritized than an electricity supply line with lower priority classes. This is also the result of previous studies. On the other hand, the study has shown that the fixed asset for an electricity supply line with lower priority objects is higher than an electricity supply line with higher priority objects, but with less benefit, priority should be given to the electricity supply line of higher priority objects. This study has thus resulted in the fact that electricity supply lines should be prioritized after the benefit if a decision maker is aware of the extent of the deficiency. Current collaboration between local networks showed that this could be dependent on the factors: distance, risk profile of decision makers and change of benefit through collaboration.

Submitted by Amanda Schutze (amanda.m.schutze@gmail.com) on 2010-08-26T23:12:06Z No. of bitstreams: 1 Efeitos da regulação no custo de aquisição de energia eletrica no brasil - Amanda.pdf: 910935 bytes, checksum: 612d6d8521fa05c9c9291ff453f6f8c8 (MD5) / Approved for entry into archive by Vitor Souza(vitor.souza@fgv.br) on 2010-08-27T14:24:16Z (GMT) No. of bitstreams: 1 Efeitos da regulação no custo de aquisição de energia eletrica no brasil - Amanda.pdf: 910935 bytes, checksum: 612d6d8521fa05c9c9291ff453f6f8c8 (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2010-08-30T12:41:51Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Efeitos da regulação no custo de aquisição de energia eletrica no brasil - Amanda.pdf: 910935 bytes, checksum: 612d6d8521fa05c9c9291ff453f6f8c8 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2010-05-27 / Over the past twenty years, the Brazilian Electric Sector (SEB) went through profound changes including two structural changes. The first, in 1995, made the transition from a centralized model with state-owned companies operating under a monopoly model to a free market model emphasizing the privatization of the sector. The second, in 2004, recovers the state's role in planning the sector expansion, establishes the coexistence of state and private companies and seeks to promote affordable tariffs. The main reason for the changes is the need for investment to expand the electric power supply. This paper aims to present these structural changes, to display the current operation of the electric power sector and to consider the issue of the end of the generation concessions from 2015 on. The federal government vagueness between bidding or extending these concessions creates uncertainties thus postponing the investments and causing losses to the country. / Nos últimos vinte anos, o Setor Elétrico Brasileiro (SEB) vem passando por profundas transformações incluindo duas reestruturações. A primeira, em 1995, faz a transição de um modelo centralizado com empresas estatais operando no regime de monopólio para um modelo de livre mercado com ênfase na privatização do setor. A segunda, em 2004, retoma o papel do Estado no planejamento da expansão do setor, estabelece a convivência entre empresas estatais e privadas e busca promover a modicidade tarifária. A principal razão para as mudanças é a necessidade de investimento para expansão da oferta de energia elétrica. Este trabalho tem como objetivo apresentar estas reformas, descrever o funcionamento atual do setor elétrico e analisar a questão do término das concessões de geração a partir de 2015. A indefinição do governo federal entre prorrogar ou licitar estas concessões cria incertezas, adiando investimentos e provocando perdas ao país.

Magister Legum - LLM (Public Law and Jurisprudence) / Electricity supply can be classified into three stages namely: generation, transmission and distribution, with the functions of generation and transmission being carried out by Eskom. In 2001, Eskom was converted from a statutory body into a public company having a share capital with its entire share capital held by the State. It is a major public entity and therefore an Organ of State and albeit that Eskom is classified as a public company, it is still a State-owned Enterprise. Municipalities purchase electricity from Eskom in bulk in order to carry out the distribution function and manage bulk supply of electricity to end-users in terms of the Local Government: Municipal Structures Act 117 of 1998 (Structures Act). Municipalities re-sell electricity purchased from Eskom to end-users as well as provide free basic electricity to indigent consumers.

El sector eléctrico de muchos países pasó por un proceso de reestructuración que tuvo su inicio en las décadas de los 80 y 90, cuyo objetivo era reorganizar el funcionamiento del sector eléctrico, mejorando su eficiencia y proporcionando así beneficios a largo plazo a los consumidores, como la reducción del precio de la electricidad. En España, este proceso se inicia en la práctica con la aprobación de la Ley 54 del Sector Eléctrico en 1997, que establecía las líneas generales de la reestructuración de las actividades del sector y además marcaba como objetivo el 12% del consumo de energía primaria proveniente de fuentes renovables en el año 2010. Esta ley también contenía un régimen especial de apoyo a estas tecnologías basado en un sistema de primas. Este objetivo fue un gran estimulo para el incremento de la participación de las renovables en la estructura de generación del país, la cual pasó de representar el 2% de la potencia total instalada en 1998 al 29% en 2012. Teniendo en cuenta la situación de las renovables en España a lo largo del periodo de reestructuración de su sector eléctrico, en esta tesis se propone averiguar el impacto económico de estas fuentes de energía en el precio final medio de la energía eléctrica durante este período. La herramienta seleccionada ha sido el análisis comparativo en entornos similares para algunas variables y en entornos muy diferentes para otras, lo cual debe permitir identificar el efecto de las variables de interés en el precio final medio de la electricidad en el Reino Unido, California y Brasil junto con España. En esta tesis se ha utilizado el precio final medio de la electricidad como parámetro para valorar los efectos de la reestructuración del sector eléctrico en lugar de utilizar el precio de la electricidad para consumidores domésticos o industriales, debido a que el objetivo era analizar el comportamiento de esta commodity en el país como un todo y no para una determinada clase de consumo. El precio final medio de la electricidad se determinó considerando los costes reales de la energía eléctrica en cada ejercicio. Para comparar este precio entre los distintos países se utilizó el purchasing power parity (PPP) como factor de conversión del cambio de divisas para convertir los precios nominales a dólares internacionales, además de ecualizar en el proceso el poder de compra de los países considerados, eliminando las diferencias de nivel de precios entre ellos. Para el análisis propuesto se han recopilado datos procedentes de distintas fuentes, abarcando un horizonte temporal de unos 30 años. La localización, verificación y homologación de estos datos procedentes de fuentes muy diversas es uno de los aspectos novedosos y fundamentales de esta tesis. A partir de estos datos se elaboraron las curvas de precio final medio de la electricidad y de las variables que podían tener alguna influencia en éste, para entonces establecer correlaciones entre el precio y cada variable. La hipótesis de partida era que el aumento de generación renovable en España había tenido una repercusión mensurable en los precios, mientras que en los países comparados esta repercusión había sido insignificante, con lo cual, a partir del análisis comparativo de las correlaciones encontradas entre las curvas de precio final medio de la electricidad y las curvas de las variables identificadas, se segrega la influencia específica de las renovables en la reestructuración del sector eléctrico español. / Martinez Castor De Cerqueira, M. (2014). Repercusión de las energías renovables en la liberalización del sector eléctrico en España: análisis comparativo incluyendo Reino Unido, California y Brasil [Tesis doctoral no publicada]. Universitat Politècnica de València. https://doi.org/10.4995/Thesis/10251/43592 / TESIS