A data envelopment analysis model with interval data and undesirable output for combined cycle power plant performance assessment

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Highlights：

• Performance evaluation of combined cycle power plants is a complex problem.

• This complexity is due to undesirable output production and interval data presence.

• We propose a data envelopment analysis method to handle the return to scale problem.

• We determine the interval efficiency scores and offer benchmarks for enhancing them.

摘要

•Performance evaluation of combined cycle power plants is a complex problem.•This complexity is due to undesirable output production and interval data presence.•We propose a data envelopment analysis method to handle the return to scale problem.•We determine the interval efficiency scores and offer benchmarks for enhancing them.

论文关键词：Economic scale size,Return to scale,Data envelopment analysis,Imprecise data: undesirable outputs,Combined cycle power plant

论文评审过程：Available online 30 August 2014.

论文官网地址：https://doi.org/10.1016/j.eswa.2014.08.028