Performance evaluation of selected U.S. utility commercial lighting demand-side management programs

Energy Engineering: Journal of the Association of Energy Engineering

Volumn 94, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 50-66

  Chen, Tser Yieth ^a   Yu, Oliver S ^b  

^a CHUNG HUA INSTITUTION FOR ECONOMIC RESEARCH   (Taiwan)

^b SRI INTERNATIONAL   (United States)

Author keywords

Commercial lighting; Data envelopment analysis; Demand side management; Performance evaluation

Indexed keywords

COSTS; ELECTRIC UTILITIES; MATHEMATICAL PROGRAMMING; PERFORMANCE;

COMMERCIAL LIGHTING; DATA ENVELOPMENT ANALYSIS; PERFORMANCE EVALUATION;

LIGHTING;

EID: 0030682590     PISSN: 01998595     EISSN: 15460118     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/01998595.1997.10530383     Document Type: Article

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