In this paper, a comprehensive approach for performance assessment and ranking of the electricity distribution companies is presented. In this approach, in order to obtain exact ranks of the electricity distribution companies, Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) as a non-parametric model and Corrected Ordinary Least Squares (COLS) as a parametric model are combined by Principal Component Analysis ...

The Iranian electricity market is undergoing the first decade of restructuring. Effective competition in wholesale electricity market is a necessary feature of successful electricity industry restructuring. The paper examines the degree of competition in the Iranian electricity market during March to September 2009. The competitive benchmark analysis has been used to simulate producer’s behavio...

  Storing the electrical energy in large scale is impossible. So, it is necessary to identify the factors affecting the electricity demand. Researchers have used different methods to forecast the future demand of electricity, among them intelligent methods and fuzzy based methods are more popular. Since ANFIS structure is based on researcher’s experience about phenomenon, the created structure ...

Surveying the awareness, outlook, and behavior of people who used electricity in metropolitan Tehran, as a characteristic of Tehran's Regional Electric Company and affiliated distribution centers, served as the first step to devise the strategic issue of Iran's electricity usage. The present article reviews the current consumption pattern of household electricity usage in Tehran with recourse t...

The main goal of this research is to investigate the effect of performing targeted subsidy on energy consumption inequality concerning Semnan province in Iran.  Doing so, first the Gini coefficient of the household electricity consumption is calculated using households budget micro data concerning urban and rural household during the years of 1984(1363)-2014(1393). Then, the effect of performin...

This article tries to analyze the effect of eliminating the electricity subsidy on the intensity of this energy in production industries during 1995-2007 using GMM dynamic panel data method. Having used the cost function with Cobb-Douglas form, it was recognized that there is a negative and significant relationship between electricity intensity and its price. Meanwhile, the increase in the pric...