Title :
Benchmarking of Indian thermal power plants
Author :
Yadav, V.K. ; Jha, Deependra Kumar ; Kumar, Narendra ; Peesapatib, V. V. Rajagopal
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Electr. Eng., Galgotias Univ., Noida, India
Abstract :
This paper evaluates the performance of coal fired thermal power plants of small installed capacity power plants (<;500 MW) in India for the year 2008-09 by application of Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA). DEA model is solved to calculate overall efficiency and input slacks. Further Cross efficiency is employed to draw out best practice power plants and their ranking is done on this basis. Slack analysis is carried out to explore the specific areas that need to be focused on for efficiency improvement. The result of this analysis may assist the management of the power plants to introspect and review their systems and processes for optimal use of resources.
Keywords :
data envelopment analysis; power system management; steam power stations; DEA model; coal fired thermal power plants; cross efficiency; data envelopment analysis; power plant management; slack analysis; small installed capacity power plants; thermal power plant benchmarking; Analytical models; Availability; Coal; Data envelopment analysis; Electricity; Government; Power generation; Cross efficiency analysis; Data envelopment analysis (DEA); Indian Thermal Power Plants; Relative efficiency; Slack analysis;
Conference_Titel :
Power and Energy Society General Meeting (PES), 2013 IEEE
Conference_Location :
Vancouver, BC
DOI :
10.1109/PESMG.2013.6672878
