This study develops a least-cost investment plan for the coal-based thermal electricity in the Eastern region of India. It expands the generation and transmission capacities as on 31st March 1981 in such a way that the regional demand for thermal power during 1989-90 is met at the minimum...

Technical efficiencies of the Indian thermal power industry have been computed in the framework of a frontier production function. Two linear programming exercises are carried out with plantwise data for 1986-87. The efficiency estimates from these exercises are used to compute two regression...