• DocumentCode
    3387193
  • 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
  • fYear
    2011
  • fDate
    4-6 Aug. 2011
  • Firstpage
    1
  • Lastpage
    8
  • 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;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • 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
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/NAPS.2011.6025094
  • Filename
    6025094