Data/hora: 11/06/2024 09:59:08

Provedor de dados: | 31
País: | United States
Título: | China’s Electricity Market Reform and Power Plants Efficiency
Autores: | Ma,   Chunbo; Zhao,   Xiaoli; Ma,   Qian; Zhao,   Yue.
Data: | 2011-11-07
Ano: | 2011
Palavras-chave: | Efficiency; DEA; Malmquist Index; China; Electricity; Industrial Organization; Productivity Analysis; Resource /Energy Economics and Policy; D24; L11; L51; L94; L98.
Resumo: | In the past three decades, Chinese electricity industry has experienced a series of regulatory reforms serving different purposes at different stages. In 2002, the former vertically integrated electricity utility - the State Power Corporation (SPC) – was divested and the generation sector was separated from the transmission and distribution networks in an effort to improve production efficiency. In this paper we study the impact of the reform on efficiency of fossil-fired power plants using plant-level data during 2000-2008. Our results from the data envelopment analysis (DEA) and panel regressions show that: 1) the total factor productivity (TFP) growth mainly comes from technological change; 2) the technical efficiency of previously SPC-managed power plants is converging to that of better-performing independent power producers (IPPs); 3) capacity utilization and unit size are significant factors affecting changes in technical efficiency and the pattern of converging technical efficiency between the two kinds of power plants; 4) most plants operate at increasing returns to scale indicating further cost savings could be achieved through increasing output.
Tipo: | Working or Discussion Paper
Idioma: | Inglês
Identificador: | http://purl.umn.edu/117811

Relação:

University of Western Australia, School of Agricultural and Resource Economics&gt;Working Papers

Working Paper

WP1125

Formato: | 21