Abstract—Canada’s electric utility industry has played an important part in the country’s history and development. Performance analysis for Canadian power industry is essential. This paper evaluates the performance of 19 Canadian power companies using Data Envelopment Analysis. The results show that the studied Canadian power companies operate very efficiently and company size has a negative effect on the performance.

Index Terms—Power industry, data envelopment analysis, optimization, performance analysis.

Zijiang Yang is with the York University, Toronto, Ontario, Canada (e-mail: zyang@yorku.ca).