air-conditioning to maintain thermal comfort is contributing to rising peak demand and electricity prices, and is placing … Australian households. We find that the problem of peak electricity demand may be reduced through attention to the social health …

This study examines the impact on the local electricity grid should electric vehicles (EVs) or a light rail transit …

The prospect of a European Supergrid calls for research on aggregate electricity peak demand and Europe-wide Demand … Side Management. No attempt has been made as yet to represent a time-related demand curve of residential electricity … database to build European occupancy curves; identify peak occupancy periods; construct time-related electricity demand curves …

electricity demand. These theories place individual consumers and their attitudes, behaviours and choices at the centre of the … problem. This paper reframes the issue of peak electricity demand using theories of social practices, contending that the … energy demand. The paper identifies three areas where demand managers could refocus their attention: (i) enabling co …

We review the recent empirical research concerning market power on the Nordic wholesale market for electricity, Nord …

wholesale electricity markets with limited number of participants. This paper examines the potential for interconnections and … increasing market integration in the Irish Single Electricity Market (SEM). We use a time-varying Kalman filter technique to … assess the degree of market integration between SEM and other large, mature and interconnected wholesale electricity markets …

imperfectly competitive German electricity market. Electric vehicles bring both additional demand and additional storage capacity … to the market. We determine the effects on prices, welfare, and electricity generation for various cases with different …

The Korean government adopted “green growth” in 2008 as an environmentally friendly growth strategy. The energy … efficiency of Korea, however, is still relatively low due to the large portion of energy intensive industry (EII) in its … manufacturing sector. To improve energy efficiency in Korea, from an EII perspective a new approach has to be taken because …

The objective of this study was to estimate the environmental impact of a home energy visit programme, known as RE …:NEW, that was delivered in London, in the United Kingdom. These home energy visits intended to encourage reductions in household … carbon emissions and water consumption through the installation of small energy saving measures (such as radiator panels, in …

a wide range of energy efficiency measures, is entirely inappropriate and leads to perverse and incorrect outcomes. As a …