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

fYear

2006

fDate

17-20 Sept. 2006

Firstpage

388

Lastpage

392

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;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Engineering Management Conference, 2006 IEEE International

Conference_Location

Bahia

Print_ISBN

1-4244-0285-9

Electronic_ISBN

1-4244-0286-7

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/IEMC.2006.4279893

Filename

4279893