Indian thermal power plant challenges and remedies via application of modified data envelopment analysis

International Transactions in Operational Research

Volumn 21, Issue 6, 2014, Pages 955-977

  Yadav, Vinod Kumar ^a   Kumar, Niranjan ^b   Ghosh, Santosh ^c   Singh, Kanwardeep ^d  

^a GALGOTIAS UNIVERSITY   (India)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (India)

^c Kirloskar Brothers Limited   (India)

^d GURU NANAK DEV ENGINEERING COLLEGE   (India)

Author keywords

Cross efficiency; Data envelopment analysis (DEA); Indian thermal power plants; Multicriteria data envelopment analysis (MCDEA)

Indexed keywords

DATA ENVELOPMENT ANALYSIS; EFFICIENCY; THERMOELECTRIC POWER PLANTS;

COAL FIRED THERMAL POWER PLANTS; CONVENTIONAL APPROACH; CROSS EFFICIENCY; EFFICIENCY EVALUATION; MULTI-CRITERIA; QUANTITATIVE MEASURES; SYSTEMS AND PROCESS; THERMAL POWER PLANTS;

SMALL POWER PLANTS;

EID: 84908244972     PISSN: 09696016     EISSN: 14753995     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/itor.12112     Document Type: Article

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