The guy at the controls: labor quality and power plant efficiency

This paper examines the impact of individual human operators on the fuel efficiency of power plants. Although electricity generation is a fuel and capital intensive enterprise, anecdotal evidence, interviews, and empirical analysis support the hypothesis that labor, particularly power plant operator...

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Beteiligte Personen: Bushnell, James B. (VerfasserIn), Wolfram, Catherine (VerfasserIn)
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Sprache:Englisch
Veröffentlicht: Cambridge, Mass. National Bureau of Economic Research 2007
Schriftenreihe:Working paper series / National Bureau of Economic Research 13215
Links:http://papers.nber.org/papers/w13215.pdf
Zusammenfassung:This paper examines the impact of individual human operators on the fuel efficiency of power plants. Although electricity generation is a fuel and capital intensive enterprise, anecdotal evidence, interviews, and empirical analysis support the hypothesis that labor, particularly power plant operators, can have a non-trivial impact on the operating efficiency of the plant. We present evidence to demonstrate these effects and survey the policies and practices of electricity producing firms that either reduce or exacerbate fuel efficiency differences across individual plant operators.
Beschreibung:Literaturverz. S. 22 - 23
Umfang:29 S. graph. Darst. 22 cm