Three decades of Indian power-sector reform:A critical assessment

Santosh Ghosh, Vinod Kumar Yadav, Vivekananda Mukherjee and Shubham Gupta

Utilities Policy, 2021, vol. 68, issue C

Abstract: The accumulated financial loss of the Indian state-owned electricity utilities (SOEUs) has crossed over USD 6.25 billion and 80% of the SOEUs are consistently incurring losses and hence financially unsustainable in long term. In this article, the impact of three decades of Indian policy reform towards reviving the techno-commercial performance of the SOEUs is critically assessed. To quantify the relative performance of SOEUs and bring out the reason behind the inefficiencies of individual SOEUs, data envelopment analysis improved by Shannon's entropy model is applied. The benchmark SOEUs are identified for each inefficient ones, and corrective policy measures are recommended.

Keywords: Improved data envelopment analysis (DEA); Electricity policy; Indian power-sector reform (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2021
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DOI: 10.1016/j.jup.2020.101158

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