since the emergence of power market, the target of power generating utilities has mainly switched from cost minimization to revenue maximization. they dispatch their power energy generation units in the uncertain environment of power market. as a result, multi-stage stochastic programming has been applied widely by many power generating agents as a suitable tool for dealing with self-scheduling...

A common feature distinguishing between parametric/ statistical models and engineering economics models is that engineering models explicitly represent best practice technologies, whereas parametric/statistical models are typically based on average practice. Measures of energy intensity based on average practice are of little use in corporate management of energy use or for public policy goal s...

The study was carried out to provide empirical evidence on technical efficiency of maize production in Nigeria using parametric and non-parametric approaches. The study employed annual secondary data on maize production in Nigeria from 1971 to 2010.Stochastic Frontier Analysis (SFA) and Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) were used to estimate the technical efficiency of maize production. The resul...

The car manufacturing industry, one of the largest energy consuming industries, has been making a considerable effort to improve its energy intensity by implementing energy efficiency programs, in many cases supported by government research or financial programs. While many car manufacturers claim that they have made substantial progress in energy efficiency improvement over the past years thro...

This study reports the results of farmers’ production via irrigation resources utilization and efficiency parameters technical allocative by way sustainable environmental economics. The hypothesis is that factors affect in scheme as Data from cross section panel data were used then productivity measurement function are outlined two scenarios: first, report such output elasticity determine ineff...

In the context of food security, market-oriented allocation factors under collective ownership system has had a profound impact on agricultural production. As hot issue Household Responsibility System (HRS), mechanism farmland market transaction production efficiency deserves discussion. Based stochastic frontier function model, this paper analyzes transfer farmers’ technical external environme...