A case study to evaluate the productivity changes of the thermal power plants of the Taiwan power company

IEEE Transactions on Energy Conversion

Volumn 22, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 680-688

  Chien, Chen Fu ^a   Chen, Wen Chih ^a   Lo, Feng Yu ^b   Lin, Yi Chiech ^a  

^a NATIONAL TSING HUA UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b TAIWAN POWER COMPANY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Data envelopment analysis (DEA); Malmquist productivity index; Productivity change; Relative efficiency; State owned power company

Indexed keywords

DATA REDUCTION; ELECTRIC INDUSTRY; GEOTHERMAL ENERGY; PRODUCTIVITY; TAIWAN;

DATA ENVELOPMENT ANALYSIS (DEA); MALMQUIST PRODUCTIVITY INDEX; PRODUCTIVITY CHANGE; RELATIVE EFFICIENCY; STATE-OWNED POWER COMPANY;

GEOTHERMAL POWER PLANTS;

EID: 34548283616     PISSN: 08858969     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TEC.2006.888026     Document Type: Article

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