We find that households living in California homes built in the 1960s and 1970s had high electricity consumption in … 2000 relative to houses of more recent vintages because the price of electricity at the time of home construction was low …. Homes built in the early 1990s had lower electricity consumption than homes of earlier vintages because the price of …

We use detailed microeconomic data to investigate why aggregate residential electricity consumption in California has … determining electricity demand. We show that building codes have been effective for homes built after 1983. We find that houses … built in the 1970s and early 1980s were energy inefficient relative to houses built before 1960 because the price of …

residential sector has been the primary focus of energy policies, commercial buildings are now responsible for most of the durable … building stock's total electricity consumption. This paper exploits a unique panel of commercial buildings to investigate the … impact of building vintage, contract incentives, and human capital on electricity consumption across commercial structures …

"Nudges" are being widely promoted to encourage energy conservation. We show that the popular electricity conservation … "nudge" of providing feedback to households on own and peers' home electricity usage in a home electricity report is two to … liberals to opt out of receiving the home electricity report and to report disliking the report. Our results suggest that …

Access to electricity is a crucial determinant of quality of life and productivity. The United States has a highly … reliable electricity grid but it faces new resilience challenges posed by more intense natural disasters and rising state level …