The Interruption Cost Estimate (ICE) Calculator
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Developed by the U.S. Department of Energy, Berkeley Lab, and Resource Innovations, the ICE Calculator estimates the economic costs associated with power outages for residential, commercial, and industrial customers. Users input outage duration, frequency, and customer characteristics to calculate direct costs such as lost productivity, equipment damage, and spoilage. Utilities and regulators use the tool to quantify outage impacts and justify investments in reliability and resilience.
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AB - Developed by the U.S. Department of Energy, Berkeley Lab, and Resource Innovations, the ICE Calculator estimates the economic costs associated with power outages for residential, commercial, and industrial customers. Users input outage duration, frequency, and customer characteristics to calculate direct costs such as lost productivity, equipment damage, and spoilage. Utilities and regulators use the tool to quantify outage impacts and justify investments in reliability and resilience.
AU - Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Resource Innovations
DB - C-MIX - Community Microgrid Information Exchange
DP - Open EI | National Laboratory of the Rockies
DO -
KW - Battery energy storage
KW - Solar
KW - Photovoltaics
KW - PV
KW - Diesel generators
KW - Other liquid-fuel generators
KW - Wind energy
KW - Financing
KW - Business models
KW - Resilience
KW - Extreme weather
LA - English
DA - 2026/01/01
PY - 2026
PB -
T1 - The Interruption Cost Estimate (ICE) Calculator
UR - https://cmix.openei.org/submissions/222
ER -
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Resource Innovations. The Interruption Cost Estimate (ICE) Calculator . , 1 January, 2026, C-MIX - Community Microgrid Information Exchange. https://cmix.openei.org/submissions/222.
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, R. (2026). The Interruption Cost Estimate (ICE) Calculator . [Data set]. C-MIX - Community Microgrid Information Exchange. . https://cmix.openei.org/submissions/222
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Resource Innovations. The Interruption Cost Estimate (ICE) Calculator . , January, 1, 2026. Distributed by C-MIX - Community Microgrid Information Exchange. https://cmix.openei.org/submissions/222
@misc{CMIX_Dataset_222,
title = { The Interruption Cost Estimate (ICE) Calculator },
author = { Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Resource Innovations},
abstractNote = {Developed by the U.S. Department of Energy, Berkeley Lab, and Resource Innovations, the ICE Calculator estimates the economic costs associated with power outages for residential, commercial, and industrial customers. Users input outage duration, frequency, and customer characteristics to calculate direct costs such as lost productivity, equipment damage, and spoilage. Utilities and regulators use the tool to quantify outage impacts and justify investments in reliability and resilience.},
url = {https://cmix.openei.org/submissions/222},
year = {2026},
howpublished = {C-MIX - Community Microgrid Information Exchange, , https://cmix.openei.org/submissions/222},
note = {Accessed: 2026-08-06}
}
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Data from Jan 1, 2026
Last updated Mar 30, 2026
Submitted Jun 2, 2026
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Resource Innovations Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
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