Since the 1990s, efficiency and benchmarking analysis has increasingly been used in network utilities research and … significantly higher average efficiency scores. …

addressed in regulatory schemes. However, this important aspect is generally not reflected in efficiency analysis of these … industries. In this paper we present an efficiency analysis of electricity distribution networks using a sample of about 500 …-output translog input distance function models to estimate cost and scale efficiency with and without incorporating quality of service …

Since the 1990s, efficiency and benchmarking analysis has increasingly been used in network utilities research and … average efficiency scores. …

reflected in efficiency analysis. In this paper we present an efficiency analysis of electricity distribution networks using a … analysis (SFA) method on multi-output translog input distance function models to estimate cost and scale efficiency with and … efficiency significantly. In contrast to previous research, smaller utilities seem to indicate lower technical efficiency when …

the efficiency and performance of network utilities. An important issue has been the extent to which such results are … utilities. The weather parameters in some models are significant in terms of economic efficiency. After excluding network length …

. Regulators have employed partial incentive schemes to promote cost saving, investment efficiency, and service quality. This paper …/99. We calculate technical efficiency of the utilities using Data Envelopment Analysis technique and productivity change over … service quality and that efficiency scores of cost-only models do not show high correlation with those of quality-based models …

Efficiency analysis of electricity distribution networks is often limited to technical or cost efficiency measures … generally not part of the analysis. A regulatory concern is that technical efficiency can be achieved at the expense of these … measures as well as allocative efficiency. Valuation of service quality for inclusion in regulatory models is particularly …

traditional all-inclusive assumption is not satisfied and, hence, production or cost predictions (and efficiency estimates) might … when analyzing the effect of weather and geography on cost efficiency in the context of the Norwegian electricity …