Benchmarking economical efficiency of renewable energy power plants: A data envelopment analysis approach

Advanced Materials Research

Volumn 772, Issue , 2013, Pages 699-704

  Lo Storto, Corrado ^a   Ferruzzi, Gabriella ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NAPLES FEDERICO II   (Italy)

Author keywords

Benchmarking; Data envelopment analysis; Efficiency; Ranking; Renewable energy; Selection; Subsidies

Indexed keywords

ECONOMICAL EFFICIENCY; FINANCIAL SUBSIDIES; RANKING; RENEWABLE ENERGIES; RENEWABLE ENERGY PLANTS; RENEWABLE ENERGY POWER; SELECTION; SUBSIDIES;

BENCHMARKING; DATA ENVELOPMENT ANALYSIS; EFFICIENCY; POWER PLANTS;

ENERGY EFFICIENCY;

EID: 84884929290     PISSN: 10226680     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.4028/www.scientific.net/AMR.772.699     Document Type: Conference Paper

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