Productivity development of Norwegian electricity distribution utilities

Resource and Energy Economics

Volumn 20, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 207-224

  Førsund, Finn R ^a,b   Kittelsen, Sverre A C ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

^b SNF   (Norway)

Author keywords

Data envelopment analysis; Efficiency; Electricity distribution; Productivity

Indexed keywords

ELECTRIC POWER UTILIZATION; ELECTRIC UTILITIES; ENERGY EFFICIENCY; OPTIMIZATION; PRODUCTIVITY;

DATA ENVELOPMENT ANALYSIS; ELECTRICITY DISTRIBUTION; PRODUCTIVITY DEVELOPMENT;

ELECTRIC POWER DISTRIBUTION;

EID: 0032166769     PISSN: 09287655     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0928-7655(97)00028-6     Document Type: Article

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