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Environmental policies may have important consequences for firms' competitiveness or profit-ability. However, the empirical literature shows that hardly any statistically significant effects on firms can be detected for the European Union Emissions Trading Scheme (EU ETS). We explain why there...
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The increased concerns about climate change have made renewable energy sources an important topic of research. Several scholars have applied different methodologies to examine the relationships between energy consumption and economic growth of individual and groups of countries and to analyze...
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Considering that the major part of greenhouse gases is carbon dioxide, there is a global concern aimed at reducing carbon emissions. Additionally, major consumer countries are looking for alternative sources of energy to avoid the impact of higher fossil fuel prices and political instability in...
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Electricity consumption will comprise an increasing share of global energy demand during the next two decades. In …
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particular, energy efficiency can be achieved by integrating information technology into electricity networks to enable the … to generators to increase deployment of renewable energy sources and to end users to save electricity and to consume …
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While wind power is considered key in the transition towards net zero, there are concerns about adverse health impacts on nearby residents. Based on precise geographical coordinates, we link a representative longitudinal household panel to all wind turbines in Germany and exploit their staggered...
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The increasing use of demand-side management as a tool to reliably meet electricity demand at peak time has stimulated … the growing literature on models used to study demand, consumer baseline (CBL) and demand response in the electricity … case for possible application to the electricity market and discusses the implications of the results. In the literature …
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increased electricity coverage in rural areas. Using household survey panel data from 2007-2010, we document that: i) girls …
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household electricity consumption. These programs are designed to increase awareness of household energy consumption with … but participated later. The evidence suggest that the customers who participated in the survey reduced their electricity …
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We examine heterogeneity in Norwegian households' price responses to critical peak pricing (CPP) on electricity … consumption, using a large-scale randomized controlled trial (RCT), high-frequency electricity data, and default enrollment …. Increasing the grid transmission charge by 4,067% (corresponding to an increase in the electricity price by 1,242%) leads to a 12 …
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