International benchmarking of electricity distribution utilities

Resource and Energy Economics

Volumn 25, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 353-371

  Edvardsen, Dag Fjeld ^a   Førsund, Finn R ^b  

^a Norwegian Building Res Institute   (Norway)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

Author keywords

Benchmarking; DEA; Efficiency; Electricity distribution utility; Malmquist productivity index

Indexed keywords

BENCHMARKING; ELECTRICITY; PRODUCTIVITY;

ELECTRICITY DISTRIBUTION;

ENERGY UTILIZATION;

DISTRIBUTION SYSTEM; ELECTRICITY GENERATION; ELECTRICITY INDUSTRY; UTILITY SECTOR;

EUROPE;

EID: 0242275167     PISSN: 09287655     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0928-7655(03)00045-9     Document Type: Article

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