A performance evaluation of the cross-strait solar photovoltaic industry

作者:Chiu Yung ho*; Ke Tsz Yi; Zhou Zhong Sheng; Cheng Shih Chun
来源:Journal of Renewable and Sustainable Energy, 2014, 6(1): 013133.
DOI:10.1063/1.4865399

摘要

Awareness of energy savings and carbon reduction is gradually on the rise throughout the world, and in addition to lowering wasted energy use, countries are putting forth great efforts to develop renewable energies. Among these energies, the greatest growth is in solar photovoltaic. While the cross-strait (China and Taiwan) solar photovoltaic industry makes up over half of the global solar photovoltaic market share, its size can certainly not be underestimated, and thus its operating performance is very important. In this research, we take 2007-2012 cross-strait solar photovoltaic industry manufacturers as the research objectives in order to measure their operating performances, using the meta frontier production function by data envelopment analysis. The empirical results show that although in the six observation years Taiwan solar photovoltaic firms are better than China counterparts, the gap between them is getting smaller and smaller. Returns to scale analysis reveal that China solar photovoltaic firms still have room for improvement to adjust the scale to optimal level.