Title :
Benchmarking study for the Indian electric utilities using data envelopment analysis
Author_Institution :
Centre for Energy Studies, Indian Inst. of Technol., Delhi, India
Abstract :
This paper presents a benchmarking analysis for assessing comparative cost efficiencies of Indian State Owned Electric Utilities (SOEU), which have been mainly responsible for the generation, distribution and transmission of electricity in India. Performance of twenty-six utilities was evaluated using the non-parametric technique of data envelopment analysis (DEA), and the impact of scale on the efficiency scores was also evaluated. The results indicate that the performance of several SOEUs is sub-optimal, suggesting the potential for significant cost reductions.
Keywords :
cost reduction; data envelopment analysis; electricity supply industry; Indian State Owned Electric Utilities; Indian electric utilities; benchmarking analysis; comparative cost efficiencies; cost reductions; data envelopment analysis; nonparametric technique; Area measurement; Costs; Data envelopment analysis; Electric variables measurement; Energy consumption; Helium; Performance analysis; Power generation; Power industry; Power measurement;
Conference_Titel :
Power Symposium, 2005. Proceedings of the 37th Annual North American
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-9255-8
DOI :
10.1109/NAPS.2005.1560586
