Performance Evaluation of Indian Electric Power Utilities Based on Data Envelopment Analysis

Author

Thakur, Tripta

Author_Institution

Center for Energy Pet. Miner. Law & Policy, Dundee Univ.

fYear

2006

fDate

12-15 Dec. 2006

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

4

Abstract

This paper presents a framework for carrying out the productivity analysis of State Electricity boards (SEBs), which have been mainly responsible for the generation, distribution and transmission of electricity in India. Productivity performances of twenty-six utilities was evaluated using Malmquist index for the time period 1996-2002. The results indicate positive productivity growths for SEBs, while also exhibiting the fact that these utilities are inefficient in operation and can be significantly improved.

Keywords

data envelopment analysis; electricity supply industry; Indian electric power utilities; Malmquist index; SEB; State Electricity boards; data envelopment analysis; performance evaluation; productivity analysis; Data analysis; Data envelopment analysis; Decision making; Europe; Performance analysis; Performance evaluation; Petroleum; Power generation; Power industry; Productivity; Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA); Productivity; State Electricity Boards;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Power Electronics, Drives and Energy Systems, 2006. PEDES '06. International Conference on

Conference_Location

New Delhi

Print_ISBN

0-7803-9772-X

Electronic_ISBN

0-7803-9772-X

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/PEDES.2006.344271

Filename

4147978