TECHNICAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENT OF THE IRANIAN POWER PLANTS: A SEMI-DISPOSAL DEA APPROACH

TECHNICAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENT OF THE IRANIAN POWER PLANTS: A SEMI-DISPOSAL DEA APPROACH

One of the most important issues is to achieve maximum production of energy from a particular energy source, which ensures the complete protection of the environment. The current paper as the first application of flexible and powerful semi-disposability approach, performs an empirical technical and...

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Published in:Journal of environmental engineering and landscape management Vol. 30; no. 2; pp. 235 - 248
Main Authors: Mokari, Masod, Ghiyasi, Mojtaba, Emami Meybodi, Ali
Format: Journal Article
Language:English
Published: Vilnius Vilnius Gediminas Technical University 01-05-2022
Subjects:
Alternative energy sources
Analysis
Biodiesel fuels
Biofuels
Carbon dioxide
Climate change
Costs
Data envelopment analysis
Electric power-plants
Electricity
Emissions
Empirical analysis
Energy economics
Energy efficiency
Energy sources
Environmental assessment
Environmental auditing
Environmental performance
Environmental protection
Gasoline
Greenhouse gases
Industrial plant emissions
Natural gas
Ownership
Performance assessment
Performance testing
Power plants
private and governmental power plant
Productivity measurement
return to scale
semi-disposability
technical-environmental efficiency
Iran
China
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Summary:One of the most important issues is to achieve maximum production of energy from a particular energy source, which ensures the complete protection of the environment. The current paper as the first application of flexible and powerful semi-disposability approach, performs an empirical technical and environmental efficiency analysis for 39 natural gas and gasoline power plants, including governmental and private property, during the years 2011–2016. Different scenarios for environmental analysis, namely, weak disposability, strong disposability and semi-disposability with different returns to scale assumptions are performed in the analysis. The primary results of multivariate assessment based on constant returns to the scale shows that 7 power plants with state ownership and 8 power plants with private ownership were among the most efficient power plants from the technical-environmental perspective. Parametric and non-parametric tests are performed and the result shows better performance of private power plants compared with governmental power plants.
ISSN:1648-6897
1822-4199
DOI:10.3846/jeelm.2022.16740