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effectively such pricing targets profligate residential electricity consumption. I then look more broadly at the energy usage …Since the 1970s, high volumetric (per kilowatt-hour) electricity prices have been justified in many policy discussions … as encouraging more efficient use of electricity and placing more of the cost burden on those who are less prudent in …
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Economists, energy experts, and policymakers have called for accelerating investment in the U.S. electricity … transmission network. Additional transmission lines could better integrate markets, reducing the total cost of electricity … document the magnitude of static allocative inefficiencies induced by transmission congestion in two major U.S. electricity …
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Solar technologies have been associated with private and social returns, but their technological potential often remains unachieved because of persistently low demand for high-quality products. In a randomized field experiment in Senegal, we assess the potential of three types of quality...
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We use an experiment to test whether consumers optimally acquire information on energy costs in appliance markets where, like many contexts, consumers are poorly informed and make mistakes despite freely-available information. We find consumers acquire information suboptimally; there is little...
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Prosumers are becoming increasingly important in global energy consumption and production. We partner with an energy …-month period. As a policy instrument, we explore how simple nudges affect choices on both the consumption and production …
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We document three remarkable features of the Opower program, in which social comparison- based home energy reports are repeatedly mailed to more than six million households nationwide. First, initial reports cause high-frequency "action and backsliding," but these cycles attenuate over time....
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The growth of electric vehicles (EVs) raises new challenges for electricity systems. We implement a field experiment to …
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We evaluate distributional and efficiency consequences of the bulk power clean electricity tax credits authorized by … the 2022 Inflation Reduction Act. To do so, we link detailed electricity capacity expansion, computable general … analyzed the bulk power tax credits lead to increased clean electricity technology deployment resulting in a reallocation of …
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consumption. These marginal emissions are challenging to measure because electricity grids encompass multiple locations and the … as a high-dimensional aggregation problem: The effect of electricity consumption on emissions can be estimated precisely …Environmental policy is increasingly concerned with measuring emissions resulting from local changes to electricity …
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From 2015 to 2023, the United States transformed from a net importer of natural gas to the world's largest liquified natural gas (LNG) exporter. We find that this surge in LNG exports has reconnected U.S. gas prices to world market prices, after a hiatus of "shut-in" fracked gas. We estimate...
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