The guy at the controls
Subtitle: labor quality and power plant efficiency
By: James B. Bushnell, Catherine Wolfram
Contributors: Wolfram, Catherine D.; National Bureau of Economic Research
Series: NBER working paper series -- working paper 13215; Working paper series (National Bureau of Economic Research : Online) -- working paper no. 13215.
Publisher: National Bureau of Economic Research
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Cambridge, MA
Language: eng
Format: [electronic resource] :
Description: "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"--National Bureau of Economic Research web site.
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