We employ hourly electricity load data for Switzerland as a real time indicator of the economic effects of the lockdown … following the spread of SARS-CoV-2. Our findings reveal that following the drastic lockdown, overall electricity use decreased by … electricity consumption of 6.3 per cent. Assuming industry, services, transport and agriculture account for 67 per cent of …

This paper develops a pseudo-panel approach to examine household electricity demand behaviour through the household … evidence that the income elasticity of French residential electricity demand is 0.22, averaged over our four cohorts of … electricity consumption follows an inverted U-shaped distribution as a function of the age of the household's head. Most notably …

In this paper, we study the predictive power of electricity consumption data for regional economic activity. Using … unique weekly and monthly electricity consumption data for the second-largest German state, the Free State of Bavaria, we … that electricity consumption is the best performing indicator in the nowcasting setup and has higher accuracy than other …

of the electricity market in the US as our case study, we find support for our theoretical predictions. Furthermore, we …

We extend existing theoretical frameworks describing electricity markets where each generator provides a Market …

We estimate the relationship between electricity, fuel and carbon prices in Germany, France, the Netherlands, the Nord … increasing interaction between electricity and input prices on the one hand, and between electricity markets on the other. The …

time. In the context of electricity markets, I show how the auction structure and bidding data can be used to estimate …

We analyse the drivers of European Power Exchange (EPEX) retail electricity prices between 2012 and early 2022 using … effects are key in retail electricity markets. Out-of-sample prediction errors using machine learning are (slightly) lower … green the energy matrix on retail electricity prices are first order. CO2 permit prices strongly impact electricity prices …

Proponents of Bitcoin argue that demand for electricity from Bitcoin miners can lead to an increase in renewable … electricity capacity. We rigorously evaluate this claim by estimating a Bitcoin electricity demand curve and include this demand … curve in a long-run model of the Texas electricity market. We find that while Bitcoin mining can indeed increase renewable …