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In India, the supply of electricity relies heavily on a virtually bankrupt and sometimes corrupt system of state … electricity boards (SEBs), which have failed to bring electricity to approximately 40% of rural households. High subsidy levels to … agriculture and domestic customers and widespread electricity theft have resulted in weak financial conditions for the SEBs; and …
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increase in the use of prepayment meters, resulting in low-income customers paying more for their electricity. These findings …
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In a discrete choice situation, information about the tastes of each sampled customer is inferred from estimates of the distribution of tastes in the population. First, maximum likelihood procedures are used to estimate the distribution of tastes in the population using the pooled data for all...
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This paper examines the efficiency implications of regulated demand price of 93 octane petrol relative to OPEC crude oil price across 183 Namibian localities in 1991. It describes briefly pricing problems associated with managing petroleum and petro-products. Assuming that demand price depends...
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with household microdata. In doing so, we tackle several econometric and data problems that are generally recognized to …
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The Commission was asked to review the National Third Party Access Regime for Natural Gas Pipelines. The review sought to assess the benefits and costs of the Regime, including its effects on investment. The Commission’s preliminary findings were released for public comment in December 2003...
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Motivated by the new auction format introduced in the England and Wales electricity market, as well as the recent … debate in California, we characterize bidding behavior and market outcomes in uniform and discriminatory electricity auctions … the analysis of electricity auctions. In particular, we show that analogies with continuous share auctions are misplaced …
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In this paper we study simple time series models and assess their forecasting performance. In particular we calibrate ARMA and ARMAX (where the exogenous variable is the system load) processes. Models are tested on a time series of California power market system prices and loads from the period...
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In this paper we study two statistical approaches to load forecasting. Both of them model electricity load as a sum of …
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China’s growing demand for oil is significantly changing the international geopolitics of energy, especially in the Asian Pacific region. The recent growth in oil consumption, combined with forecasts of increased oil imports (especially from the Middle East), have led to deep concern among...
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