In the Brazilian power sector, the transmission companies (TRANSCOS) receive revenues by the availability of their transmission facilities, regardless of the amount of the electric power transmitted. To promote their efficient operation the regulator periodically revises the revenue caps. The calculation of efficient operational costs is the first stage of the tariff revision process. Recently, the regulator agent published a resolution describing the methodology used to set the revenues of the Brazilian TRANSCOS. This algorithm includes a data envelopment model (DEA) which is described in this paper. In this work we propose an alternative DEA model and present a comparison of the results obtained by the two models.
data envelopment analysis; electricity power transmission; tariff revision
