Estimating plant level energy efficiency with a stochastic frontier

Energy Journal

Volumn 29, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 23-43

  Boyd, Gale A ^a  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 42549138311     PISSN: 01956574     EISSN: None     Source Type: Trade Journal    
DOI: 10.5547/ISSN0195-6574-EJ-Vol29-No2-2     Document Type: Article

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