Data on U.S. electricity generating plants
This dataset contains data on fossil fuel fired steam electric power generation plants in the United States between 1986 and 1996.
utility
A data frame with 791 observations on the following 11 variables.
Plant identification.
Year identification.
Net-steam electric power generation in megawatt-hours.
Dummy variable which takes a value equal to 1 if the power plant is in a state which enacted legislation or issued a regulatory order to implement retail access during the sample period, and 0 otherwise.
Capital stock.
Labor and maintenance.
Fuel.
Labor price.
Fuel price.
Capital price.
Total cost.
The dataset has been used in Kumbhakar et al. (2014).
Kumbhakar, S.C., H.J. Wang, and A. Horncastle. 2014. A Practitioner's Guide to Stochastic Frontier Analysis Using Stata. Cambridge University Press.
str(utility) summary(utility)
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