Abstract
In this paper, we developed an alternative Network Slacks-Based Data Envelopment Analysis Measure (NSBM) wherein the overall efficiency is expressed as a weighted average of the efficiencies of the individual processes. The advantage of this new model is that both overall efficiency and multi-divisional efficiencies have been calculated with a unified framework. The major merits of the proposed model are its ability to provide appropriate measure of efficiency, obtaining weight of processes from model, simultaneous assessment of intermediate variables considering them as both input and output. Finally, an application in electric power companies shows the practicality of the proposed model.
•Developing network DEA model to decompose the system efficiency.•Pareto target estimation for intermediate products of electric power companies.•The transmission process is more efficient than generation & distribution.•To improve the efficiency, policy makers should make more attention to the generation process.