This study compares among fossil fuel power plants in PJM and California ISO by their unified (operational and environmental) performance. DEA (Data Envelopment Analysis) is used as a methodology. For comparative analysis, DEA incorporates strategic concepts such as natural and managerial...

This study discusses a new use of window analysis for DEA environmental assessment in a time horizon where DEA stands for Data Envelopment Analysis. The data sets on environmental protection are often structured by time series. In applying DEA to environmental assessment, it is necessary for us...

Climate change and global warming become a major policy issue in the world. Economic activities produce not only desirable outputs (e.g., electricity) but also undesirable outputs (e.g., CO2 emission). The important policy issue is how each nation can balance between economic development and...