Title :
Efficiency analysis of Indian thermal power plants: A unit level cross-sectional perspective
Author :
Sen, Nandita ; Karmaker, Bhaskar Roy ; Narsaria, Ankit ; Mukhopadhyay, Amit ; Tiwari, Sunita
Author_Institution :
Dept. of PFE, CAEPHT, Gangtok, India
Abstract :
The paper endeavors to assess the extent of technical efficiency, pure technical efficiency and scale efficiency of Indian thermal power plants at unit level. Result shows that there is no significant degree of difference in scale efficiency. Managerial inefficiency is the main source of overall technical inefficiency. The results pertaining to Tobit analysis reveal that regional differential and ownership-specific influence are significant factors to determine the technical efficiency of power plant units.
Keywords :
thermal power stations; Indian thermal power plants; Tobit analysis; ownership-specific influence; power plant units; regional differential influence; scale efficiency; technical efficiency; unit level cross-sectional perspective; Availability; Companies; Electricity; Investments; Power generation; Production; Thermal analysis;
Conference_Titel :
North American Power Symposium (NAPS), 2011
Conference_Location :
Boston, MA
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4577-0417-8
Electronic_ISBN :
978-1-4577-0418-5
DOI :
10.1109/NAPS.2011.6025094
