Measuring efficiency of hydropower plants in Nepal using data envelopment analysis

IEEE Transactions on Power Systems

Volumn 21, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 1502-1511

  Jha, Deependra Kumar ^a,b   Shrestha, Rabin ^a  

^a TRIBHUVAN UNIVERSITY   (Nepal)

^b Nepal Electricity Authority   (Nepal)

Author keywords

Data envelopment analysis (DEA); Performance evaluation; Scale efficiency; Technical efficiency

Indexed keywords

DATA ENVELOPMENT ANALYSIS; LINEAR ALGEBRA; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS;

GENERAL ALGEBRAIC MODELING SYSTEMS; PERFORMANCE EVALUATION; SCALE EFFICIENCY;

HYDROELECTRIC POWER PLANTS;

EID: 33847610278     PISSN: 08858950     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TPWRS.2006.881152     Document Type: Article

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