Benchmarking of Indian thermal power plants

Author

Yadav, V.K. ; Jha, Deependra Kumar ; Kumar, Narendra ; Peesapatib, V. V. Rajagopal

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. Eng., Galgotias Univ., Noida, India

fYear

2013

fDate

21-25 July 2013

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

5

Abstract

This paper evaluates the performance of coal fired thermal power plants of small installed capacity power plants (<;500 MW) in India for the year 2008-09 by application of Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA). DEA model is solved to calculate overall efficiency and input slacks. Further Cross efficiency is employed to draw out best practice power plants and their ranking is done on this basis. Slack analysis is carried out to explore the specific areas that need to be focused on for efficiency improvement. The result of this analysis may assist the management of the power plants to introspect and review their systems and processes for optimal use of resources.

Keywords

data envelopment analysis; power system management; steam power stations; DEA model; coal fired thermal power plants; cross efficiency; data envelopment analysis; power plant management; slack analysis; small installed capacity power plants; thermal power plant benchmarking; Analytical models; Availability; Coal; Data envelopment analysis; Electricity; Government; Power generation; Cross efficiency analysis; Data envelopment analysis (DEA); Indian Thermal Power Plants; Relative efficiency; Slack analysis;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Power and Energy Society General Meeting (PES), 2013 IEEE

Conference_Location

Vancouver, BC

ISSN

1944-9925

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/PESMG.2013.6672878

Filename

6672878