Measurement of productive efficiency with frontier methods: A case study for wind farms

Energy Economics

Volumn 32, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 1199-1208

  Iglesias, Guillermo ^a   Castellanos, Pablo ^a   Seijas, Amparo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF A CORUÑA   (Spain)

Author keywords

DEA; Efficiency; SFA; Wind farm

Indexed keywords

DEA; ECONOMIC IMPACTS; EFFICIENCY MEASURE; PRODUCTIVE PROCESS; SFA; SIMULTANEOUS USE; STOCHASTIC FRONTIER ANALYSIS; WIND ELECTRICITY; WIND FARM; WIND FARM DEVELOPMENT;

ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL EFFECTS; ELECTRIC UTILITIES; FARMS; WIND POWER;

DATA ENVELOPMENT ANALYSIS;

DATA ENVELOPMENT ANALYSIS; ECONOMIC IMPACT; ELECTRICITY GENERATION; ENERGY EFFICIENCY; MEASUREMENT METHOD; REGULATORY FRAMEWORK; STAKEHOLDER; STOCHASTICITY; TECHNOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENT; WIND FARM;

EID: 77956779672     PISSN: 01409883     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.eneco.2010.03.004     Document Type: Article

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