Assessment of operational and environmental performance of the thermal power plants in Turkey by using data envelopment analysis

Energy Policy

Volumn 38, Issue 10, 2010, Pages 6194-6203

  Sözen, Adnan ^a   Alp, Ihsan ^a   Özdemir, Adnan ^b  

^a GAZI UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^b Ministry of Energy and Natural Resources   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Data envelopment analysis; Efficiency; Thermal power plant

Indexed keywords

DATA ENVELOPMENT ANALYSIS; DECISION MAKING; EFFICIENCY; ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT; GAS PLANTS; THERMOELECTRIC POWER PLANTS;

DECISION MAKING UNIT; EFFICIENCY ANALYSIS; ELECTRICITY GENERATION; ENVIRONMENTAL PERFORMANCE; MULTIPLE INPUTS AND OUTPUTS; OPERATIONAL PERFORMANCE; RELATIVE PERFORMANCE; THERMAL POWER PLANTS;

ELECTRIC POWER GENERATION;

COAL-FIRED POWER PLANT; DATA ENVELOPMENT ANALYSIS; DECISION MAKING; ELECTRICITY GENERATION; ENERGY EFFICIENCY; ENVIRONMENTAL EFFECT; NATURAL GAS; POWER PLANT; THERMAL POWER;

TURKEY;

EID: 77956443540     PISSN: 03014215     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.enpol.2010.06.005     Document Type: Article

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