Measuring Environmental Performance of Provincial Thermal Power Plants in China: A Malmquist DEA Approach with Fixed-Sum Undesirable Outputs

• Published in: Journal of systems science and complexity Vol. 35; no. 4; pp. 1201 - 1224
• Main Authors: Hou, Wenhui, Zheng, Yunwen, Liang, Liang, Li, Yongjun
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin/Heidelberg Springer Berlin Heidelberg 01.08.2022; Springer Nature B.V
• Subjects: Complex Systems; Control; Empirical analysis; Mathematics; Mathematics and Statistics; Mathematics of Computing; Operations Research/Decision Theory; Performance evaluation; Power plants; Statistics; Systems Theory; Thermal power plants; Thermoelectricity; China; fixed-sum undesirable outputs; Malmquist productivity index; environmental performance; thermal power plants; Data envelopment analysis

With the development of China’s economy, environmental pollution has become cumulatively serious. The primary source of environmental pollution is thermal power generation, which has attracted the attention of governments and academia in recent years. To effectively reduce environmental pollution, r...