Establishing quality performance of distribution companies based on yardstick regulation

IEEE Transactions on Power Systems

Volumn 21, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 1148-1153

  Tanure, J E Pinheiro dos Santos ^a   Tahan, Carlos Márcio Vieira ^b   Marangon Lima, J W ^c  

^a Universidade Salvador   (Brazil)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

^c FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF ITAJUBÁ   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Data envelopment analysis (DEA); Distribution reliability; Dynamic cluster analysis; Quality performance; Yardstick regulation

Indexed keywords

CUSTOMER SATISFACTION; ECONOMICS; ELECTRIC INDUSTRY; ELECTRIC POWER DISTRIBUTION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; QUALITY ASSURANCE;

DATA ENVELOPMENT ANALYSIS; DISTRIBUTION RELIABILITY; DYNAMIC CLUSTER ANALYSIS; QUALITY PERFORMANCE; YARDSTICK REGULATION;

ELECTRIC POWER SYSTEMS;

EID: 33747589684     PISSN: 08858950     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TPWRS.2006.879283     Document Type: Article

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