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Ground Source Heat Pump Systems in Canada: Economics and GHG Reduction Potential
Hanova, Jana; Dowlatabadi, Hadi; Mueller, Lynn - 2007
Climate stabilization requires greenhouse gas reductions (GHG) in excess of 60 percent. Ground source heat pumps (GSHPs) hold the promise of meeting heating and cooling loads much more efficiently than conventional technologies. The economic viability of their widespread adoption depends on the...
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Cost-Effectiveness of Electricity Energy Efficiency Programs
Arimura, Toshi H.; Li, Shanjun; Newell, Richard G.; … - 2011
We analyze the cost-effectiveness of electric utility ratepayer-funded programs to promote demand-side management (DSM) and energy efficiency (EE) investments. We specify a model that relates electricity demand to previous EE DSM spending, energy prices, income, weather, and other demand...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009018420
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How Do Natural Gas Prices Affect Electricity Consumers and the Environment?
Linn, Joshua; Anna Muehlenbachs, Lucija; Wang, Yshuang - 2014
Between 2008 and 2012, the delivered price of natural gas to the U.S. power sector fell 60 percent. This paper addresses, in theory and in practice, the effects of this negative price shock on electricity consumers and the environment. We demonstrate with a simple model that the larger the...
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The Anatomy of Electricity Demand: A CGE Decomposition for Norway
Holmøy, Erling - 2005
The paper derives a general equilibrium demand function for electricity by imposing a specific closure rule on a large CGE-model of the Norwegian economy. By a decomposition technique it quantifies the contribution from various mechanisms to the price sensitivity of aggregate electricity demand....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011968196
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How do Spot prices affect aggregate electricity demand?
Bye, Torstein; Hansen, Petter Vegard - 2008
All participants in power exchanges are interested in market responses when electricity prices change because this influences the profitability of actions. Contrary to most econometric work in this field, which uses annual time series or panel data, we exploit high-frequency data from a power...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011968297
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The Dynamics of Electric Cookstove Adoption: Panel Data Evidence from Ethiopia
Alem, Yonas; Hassen, Sied; Kohlin, Gunnar - 2013
Previous studies on improved cookstove adoption in developing countries use cross-sectional data, which makes it difficult to control for unobserved heterogeneity and investigate what happens to adoption over time. We use robust non-linear panel data and hazard models on three rounds of panel...
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Retrospective Examination of Demand-side Energy-efficiency Policies
Palmer, Karen; Newell, Richard; Gillingham, Kenneth - 2004
efficiency policies covering appliance standards, financial incentives, information and voluntary programs, and government energy …
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Information Programs for Technology Adoption: The Case of Energy-Efficiency Audits
Newell, Richard; Anderson, Soren - 2002
We analyze technology adoption decisions of manufacturers in response to energy audits provided by Department of Energy Industrial Assessment Centers. Using fixed effects logit estimation to control for unobserved plant characteristics, we find that plants respond as expected to financial costs...
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When can micro properties be used to predict aggregate demand?
Halvorsen, Bente - 2006
Heterogeneity in consumer behaviour creates differences in demand responses, which may create problems with aggregation across consumers. If aggregation problems exist, results from estimation based on aggregate data may prove difficult to interpret. Using estimation results from micro data to...
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Assessing the Energy-Efficiency Information Gap: Results from a Survey of Home Energy Auditors
Palmer, Karen; Walls, Margaret; Gordon, Hal; Gerarden, Todd - 2011
not have good information about how to take advantage of these opportunities. Energy auditors make up a growing industry … of professionals who evaluate building energy use and provide this information to building owners. This paper reports the … for government. Findings from the survey suggest that the audit industry only partially is filling the information gap …
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