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Technical Efficiency of Thermal Power Generation in India: Post-Restructuring Experience

Year 2012, Volume: 2 Issue: 4, 210 - 224, 01.12.2012

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The Indian power generation industry has undergone a paradigm shift during the past two decades largely due to private sector participation and restructuring of the sector. In order to assess the performance of the power generation sector, the present study takes annual data of 14 major states in India for the period 2000-01 to 2007-08 and estimates a stochastic translog production frontier. The decline in technical efficiency of the Indian power generation sector over the study period, as obtained from the econometric estimation, appears to indicate that it has failed to bring in the desired results in terms of efficiency improvement. The total factor productivity (TFP) of the power generation industry, which includes technical change, technical efficiency change, and scale change, however, has shown some improvement. Technical efficiency of the power generation industry is explained by technical manpower employed, per capita state domestic product, year of unbundling of State Electricity Boards (SEBs) and time variable. The study concludes that inefficiency in Indian power sector is caused by the above mentioned factors rather than stochastic error.

Year 2012, Volume: 2 Issue: 4, 210 - 224, 01.12.2012

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Other ID JA59ZS67DJ
Journal Section Research Article
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Sahba Fatima This is me

Kaustuva Barik This is me

Publication Date December 1, 2012
Published in Issue Year 2012 Volume: 2 Issue: 4

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APA Fatima, S., & Barik, K. (2012). Technical Efficiency of Thermal Power Generation in India: Post-Restructuring Experience. International Journal of Energy Economics and Policy, 2(4), 210-224.
AMA Fatima S, Barik K. Technical Efficiency of Thermal Power Generation in India: Post-Restructuring Experience. IJEEP. December 2012;2(4):210-224.
Chicago Fatima, Sahba, and Kaustuva Barik. “Technical Efficiency of Thermal Power Generation in India: Post-Restructuring Experience”. International Journal of Energy Economics and Policy 2, no. 4 (December 2012): 210-24.
EndNote Fatima S, Barik K (December 1, 2012) Technical Efficiency of Thermal Power Generation in India: Post-Restructuring Experience. International Journal of Energy Economics and Policy 2 4 210–224.
IEEE S. Fatima and K. Barik, “Technical Efficiency of Thermal Power Generation in India: Post-Restructuring Experience”, IJEEP, vol. 2, no. 4, pp. 210–224, 2012.
ISNAD Fatima, Sahba - Barik, Kaustuva. “Technical Efficiency of Thermal Power Generation in India: Post-Restructuring Experience”. International Journal of Energy Economics and Policy 2/4 (December 2012), 210-224.
JAMA Fatima S, Barik K. Technical Efficiency of Thermal Power Generation in India: Post-Restructuring Experience. IJEEP. 2012;2:210–224.
MLA Fatima, Sahba and Kaustuva Barik. “Technical Efficiency of Thermal Power Generation in India: Post-Restructuring Experience”. International Journal of Energy Economics and Policy, vol. 2, no. 4, 2012, pp. 210-24.
Vancouver Fatima S, Barik K. Technical Efficiency of Thermal Power Generation in India: Post-Restructuring Experience. IJEEP. 2012;2(4):210-24.