A DEA Study to Evaluate the Relative Efficiency and Investigate the District Reorganization of the Taiwan Power Company

Author

Lo, F. Y. ; Chien, C. F. ; Lin, Jintong

Author_Institution

National Tsing Hua University, Hsinchu, Taiwan; Taiwan Power Company, Taipei, Taiwan

Volume

21

Issue

2

fYear

2001

Firstpage

55

Lastpage

56

Abstract

In this study data envelopment analysis (DEA) models were applied to evaluate the relative efficiencies of twenty-two electricity distribution districts of the Taiwan Power Company (TPC) in Taiwan. The empirical study showed that the TPC districts have good overall efficiency. We found that eleven districts were inefficient. Most of the inefficient districts suffer from scale inefficiency to a greater degree than technical inefficiency. We suggested the specific improvement directions for the corresponding inefficient districts. This study also investigated district reorganization to increase the efficiency. The proposed district reorganization alternatives have higher efficiency scores than the current one.

Keywords

Data envelopment analysis; Electricity supply industry; Energy management; Load management; Power generation; Power system analysis computing; Power system control; Power system harmonics; Power system planning; Power systems; Data envelopment analysis (DEA); Taiwan Power Company (TPC); relative efficiency; reorganization;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Power Engineering Review, IEEE

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

0272-1724

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/MPER.2001.4311285

Filename

4311285