DEA (data envelopment analysis)-assisted supporting measures for ground coupled heat pumps implementing in Italy: A case study

Longo, Leonardo; Colantoni, Andrea; Castellucci, Sonia; Carlini, Maurizio; Vecchione, Luigi; Savuto, Elisa; Pallozzi, V.; Carlo, Andrea Di; Bocci, Enrico; Moneti, M.; Cocchi, Silvia; Boubaker, K.

doi:10.1016/j.energy.2015.07.024

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“…Note that DEA applications in this area can be found in Lee et al (2012Lee et al ( , 2015, Liu et al (2015), Longo et al (2015), Madlener et al (2009), Menegaki (2013, Peng and Cui (2016), Racz and Vestergaard (2016), Sueyoshi and Goto (2014b) and Wang and Sueyoshi (2017).…”

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World trend in energy: an extension to DEA applied to energy and environment

Sueyoshi

Goto

2017

Economic Structures

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This study describes how to use Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) for assessing the performance of energy firms. The methodology has been widely used for performance assessment on various organizations in public and private sectors because of its computational practicality (i.e., solving by linear programming) and less assumption (e.g., nonparametric) on production relationship between inputs and outputs. It is indeed true that it has a high level of practicality. However, the conventional uses of DEA were often misguiding many applications, in particular, in guiding energy industries. See the recent book and article prepared by and , both AbstractThis study proposes a use of data envelopment analysis (DEA) to assess the performance of energy industries. The DEA is a nonparametric approach that does not assume any functional form for performance assessment. The purpose of this study is to discuss how DEA can examine the current energy industries and their trends in the world. The energy is separated into primary and secondary categories. The primary energy is classified into fossil and non-fossil fuels. The fossil fuels include oil, natural gas and coal, while the non-fossil ones include nuclear and renewable energies (e.g., solar, wind, biomass, water and others). Energy consumption is essential for developing economic prosperity in all nations. However, a use of various energy resources usually produces many different types of pollutions (e.g., air, soil and water pollutions), leading to a huge damage on our society and human health. Thus, it is important for us to understand a general trend of world energy when we consider various environmental issues. This study discusses electricity as a representative of secondary energy. It is not easy to maintain a high level of social balance, so-called sustainability between economic development and environmental protection. As the initial step for sustainability development, this study summarizes a general trend of energy whose consumption has been increasing along with an economic development and a population increase in the world. Along with discussing the trend of world energy, this study describes why DEA is useful as one of the methodologies to assess a social balance between economic success and environmental protection by identifying a level of efficiency, later referred to as "unified (operational and environmental) efficiency. " Thus, this study conveys the research necessity of DEA environmental assessment on energy and sustainability from a perspective of supply and demand on energy resources in the world.

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