Title :
The technical efficiency of developing country electricity systems
Author :
Whiteman, John L.
Author_Institution :
PE Consulting, Evatt, ACT, Australia
Abstract :
The objective of this paper is to identify best practice performance and to measure the technical efficiency of 85 developing country electricity systems. Technical efficiency is measured as the ratio of the gross output of electricity sectors to their output at best practice. Technical efficiency estimates are standardised for differences between systems in average consumption of electricity per customer, inefficiencies due to nonoptimal scale and input congestion. The resulting estimates of technical efficiency measure the scope for management initiated improvements in labour and capital productivity by forming benchmarking partnerships and emulating the best practices of other systems
Keywords :
human resource management; management; power consumption; power systems; average customer electricity consumption; benchmarking partnerships; best practice output; capital productivity improvement; developing country; electricity systems; gross output; labour improvement; management initiated improvements; nonoptimal input congestion; nonoptimal scale congestion; technical efficiency; Australia; Best practices; Costs; Data envelopment analysis; Electric variables measurement; Energy consumption; Load management; Mathematical programming; Power generation; Productivity;
Conference_Titel :
Energy Management and Power Delivery, 1995. Proceedings of EMPD '95., 1995 International Conference on
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-2981-3
DOI :
10.1109/EMPD.1995.500779
