The technical efficiency of developing country electricity systems

Author

Whiteman, John L.

Author_Institution

PE Consulting, Evatt, ACT, Australia

Volume

2

fYear

1995

Firstpage

504

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;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Energy Management and Power Delivery, 1995. Proceedings of EMPD '95., 1995 International Conference on

Print_ISBN

0-7803-2981-3

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/EMPD.1995.500779

Filename

500779