E nergy is one of the main and essential factors in economic growth. Electricity as one of the most important resources of energy supply for economic sectors on one hand, and as an index of welfare, on the other hand, is one of the economic development benchmarks. The growth of GDP will increase the demand for energy resources, including electricity. Hence, policymakers should pay at...

This paper is concerned with the estimation of total factor productivity (TFP) growth for the Iranian electric utilities during the period 1980-1993 on the basis of panel data. A translog cost function is used which accommodates firm - specific variability through a one - way error component model. The results show that the Iranian electricity supply industry experienced increasing returns to s...

If latter part of the electricity supply chain including the LV network and customers is becoming more active. There can (EV) and other distributed energy resources (DER) connected to the grid and the customer can actively participate to the electricity market through resources. communities which are at least partly self terms of electric energy. This suggests microgrid (μG) operation. There ha...

Recent developments in renewable energy generation make it possible for renewable sectors to supply considerable share of electricity all around the world. As these sectors get larger, more attention is paid to the implementation of supportive strategies with the aim of motivating renewable energy (RE) developers. At present, Feed-In-Tariff (FIT) policies are regarded as one of the efficient st...

Assessment of the electricity market shows that, electricity market data can be considered "big data". this data has been analyzed by both conventional and modern data mining methods. The predicted variables of supply and demand are considered to be the input of a defined multi-objective for predicting electricity price, which is the result of the defined model. This shows the advantage of appl...

The performance of a supply chain can be evaluated in either a cross-sectional or a time series manner, and data envelopment analysis is a useful method for both types of evaluation. In this paper we develop an index and indicator of productivity change that can be used with radial and non-radial models for supply chain malmquist index. The supply chain malmquist productivity index (SCMPI) can ...