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 …

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 …

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 …