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required in the heating sector, but also that other external factors will be of paramount importance, including the electricity …
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Accurate information about electricity generation and consumption is crucial to power system modelling. Several … example, annual electricity generation from wind and solar power in Germany differs by as much as 10%–20%, depending on who … provided, nor is it constant. The deviation is particularly worrying in Germany, where peak electricity demand might be …
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electricity usage. We fit models with household-by-season, season-by-year, and household-by-year fixed effects to account for all … past electricity usage, or if we gain by adding structural characteristics of the home, including heating system type. We … find that the two programs reduce electricity usage by 5% on average. The effects are strong in both winter and summer for …
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Globally about 800 million people live without electricity at home, over two thirds of which are in sub-Saharan Africa … activities. Planning electricity access infrastructure and allocating resources efficiently requires a careful assessment of the …-scale electrification planning studies have been based on top-down electricity demand targets. Yet, poorly representing the heterogeneity in …
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The carbon mitigation literature has separately considered using forests to store carbon and as a source of bioenergy. In this paper, we look at both options to reach a 2°C mitigation target. This paper combines the global forest model, GTM, with the IAM WITCH model to study the optimal use of...
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Concerns about climate change are growing, and so is the demand for information about the costs and benefits of mitigating greenhouse gas emissions. This paper seeks to estimate the benefits of climate change mitigation, as measured by the public's willingness to pay for such policies. We...
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sector; (iv) and leads to an increase in the electricity bill. Responses to the choice questions show that our respondents … willing to pay a higher price for electricity in order to internalize the external costs in terms of energy security, climate … change and air pollution caused by the production of electricity …
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Transportation accounts for a substantial share of CO2 emissions, and decarbonizing transport will be necessary to limit global warming to below 2°C. Due to persistent reliance on fossil fuels, it is posited that transport is more difficult to decarbonize than other sectors. We test this...
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This paper provides an empirical analysis of the determinants of energy efficiency in fossil fuel electricity … electricity generation, the capacity ratio at which power plants are run, as well as the characteristics of the production … fossil-fuel technologies, we build an indicator which proxies for technological developments in fuel-efficient electricity …
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aggregate reductions in energy use, as commercial electricity use increases significantly. We find that climate change has a …
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