"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 …

daily or monthly usage rises. There is no cost basis for differentiating marginal price of electricity by consumption level … by these increasing-block electricity tariffs. I find that the rate structure does redistribute income to lower …

We study the electricity consumption of San Diego-area households following a series of price changes and related … conservation program had significant, but transitory, effects. Further, a large share of households reduced electricity consumption …

residential electricity and natural gas demand for the world's sixth largest economy - California. The advantage of the proposed … show that failing to account for extensive margin adjustment in electricity demand leads to a significant underestimate of … the future impacts on electricity consumption. We further show that reductions in natural gas demand more than offset any …

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 … their use. The argument has been used in support of increasing-block electricity pricing, under which the price per kilowatt …

the highest energy use per capita in the world. Our dataset consists of 207,325 monthly electricity meter readings from a … a national message reminding households that Qatar prioritizes energy conservation. The treatments reduce electricity …

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

electricity consumption …

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 … electricity at the time of construction was low. Employing our regression estimates, we construct an aggregate residential …