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inferring the causal impact of electricity access on livelihoods. We then show how ML-based inference techniques deliver more …
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critical peak pricing intervention reduces electricity consumption by 14%. Using unique high frequency appliance-level data, we …
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Electricity is a general purpose technology and the catalyst for the second industrial revolution. Developing countries … with the length of higher-voltage electricity lines. Instrumenting for electrification using hydroelectric potential, we …
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electricity consumption …
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We report on an economic experiment that compares outcomes in electricity markets subject to carbon-tax and cap …, respectively. Across these matched pairs, the cap-and-trade mechanism produced much higher wholesale electricity prices (38.5% to … 52.6% higher) and lower total electricity production (2.5% to 4.0% lower) than the "equivalent" carbon tax, without any …
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This paper documents an increase in residential electricity consumption while industrial and commercial consumption has … decline in industrial electricity consumption, but left residential usage unaffected. The increase in residential consumption … of 2020, total excess expenditure on residential electricity was nearly $6B …
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We use city-industry data from 1890 to 1940 to identify the impact of electricity on manufacturing. We exploit cross …-industry variation in pre-electricity energy intensity combined with geographic variation in proximity to early hydroelectric power … plants. Labor productivity gains from the arrival of electricity were rapid and long-lasting. Electricity was labor …
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-Industrial-Revolution industries like steel, electricity, and chemicals. For firms in the nations of the Entente, we argue, the war mainly interrupted …
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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 …
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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 … electricity at the time of construction was low. Employing our regression estimates, we construct an aggregate residential …
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