An empirical study on total factor energy efficiency of China's thermal power generation

摘要

China's coal-fired power conversion efficiency is about 30％,less than the one of 40％ in developed countries.Therefore promoting the energy efficiency of China's power industry,especially thermal power industry,will be undoubtedly significant to promoting the country's energy efficiency and energy saving.Traditional measure methods of total factor energy efficiency often ignore the undesirable output and only consider the desirable output; therefore,the value of total factor energy efficiency measured has a lager deviation from actual one.The paper using Malmquist-Luenberger productivity index measures the growth of total factor energy efficiency of 30 provinces' thermal power generation of China over 2003 to 2010.The results indicate that the growth rate of total factor energy efficiency of Thermal Power Generation considering environmental constraint is much lower than the one not.