Many countries have phased out nuclear electricity production in response to concerns about nuclear waste and the risk … lost nuclear electricity production due to the phase-out was replaced primarily by coal-fired production and net … electricity imports. The social cost of this shift from nuclear to coal is approximately 12 billion dollars per year. Over 70% of …

inferring the causal impact of electricity access on livelihoods. We then show how ML-based inference techniques deliver more …

critical peak pricing intervention reduces electricity consumption by 14%. Using unique high frequency appliance-level data, we …

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 …

electricity consumption …

We report on an economic experiment that compares outcomes in electricity markets subject to carbon-tax and cap-and-trade …, respectively. Across these matched pairs, the cap-and-trade mechanism produced much higher wholesale electricity prices (38.5% to … compared three matched carbon-tax/cap-and-trade pairs with equivalent emissions targets, mean emissions, and mean carbon prices …

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 …

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 …

-Industrial-Revolution industries like steel, electricity, and chemicals. For firms in the nations of the Entente, we argue, the war mainly interrupted …