Title :
Total quality management indicators and DEA for Benchmarking the Mexican Electrical Industry
Author :
Avalos-Gonzalez, J.A. ; Rico-Melgoza, J. Jesus ; Madrigal, M. ; Madrigal, M.
Author_Institution :
Michoacana Univ., Michoacana
Abstract :
Several incentive regulation schemes for distribution companies require benchmarking techniques to measure relative efficiency and compute X-factors for tariff adjustment in a way that competition is emulated through regulation. In this paper we benchmark electricity distribution zones within the Mexican electricity industry using data envelopment analysis (DEA). The economical and technical efficiency measures obtained through DEA suggest that internal (non-regulated) total quality management (TQM) programs might also have a positive impact over efficiency, as measured by DEA.
Keywords :
benchmark testing; data envelopment analysis; power distribution; power markets; total quality management; DEA; Mexican electrical industry; data envelopment analysis; distribution companies; incentive regulation schemes; tariff adjustment electricity distribution zones; total quality management indicators; Data envelopment analysis; Distributed computing; Electricity supply industry; Environmental economics; Industrial economics; Monopoly; Power generation economics; Power industry; Power system economics; Total quality management; Benchmarking; Data Envelopment Analysis; Distribution Systems; Electricity Markets;
Conference_Titel :
Engineering Management Conference, 2006 IEEE International
Conference_Location :
Bahia
Print_ISBN :
1-4244-0285-9
Electronic_ISBN :
1-4244-0286-7
DOI :
10.1109/IEMC.2006.4279893
