. Electricity distribution is the canonical example of a natural monopoly. Randomized price offers show that demand for electricity … levels, suggesting that residential electrification may reduce social welfare. We discuss how leakage, reduced demand (due to …

We study the dynamics of residential electricity demand by exploiting a natural experiment that produced large and long … that the price elasticity of demand grows from –0:09 in the first six months to –0:27 two years later. We also estimate a …

This paper presents estimates of the customer-level demand for electricity by industrial and commercial customers … customers also face the possibility of a demand charge on their electricity consumption during the three half-hour periods that … day due to changes in all components of day-ahead E&W electricity prices, the level of the demand charge and the …

household electricity demand that addresses these difficulties. We estimate the model using data for a representative sample of … California households, and summarize how electricity demand elasticities vary in that state. We then use the model to analyze the …Recent efforts to restructure and partially deregulate electricity markets have renewed interest in understanding how …

Many new products presumed to be privately beneficial to the poor have a high price elasticity of demand and ultimately … model that includes the forces that are known to be determinants of insurance demand, provide reduced form confirmation of …

The standard approach to recovering the cost of electricity provision is to bill customers monthly for past consumption …. A possible solution to this problem is prepaid metering, in which customers buy electricity upfront and use it until the … prepaid amount is consumed. We use data from Cape Town, South Africa to examine the effects of prepaid electricity metering on …

India, seeking to reduce electricity shortages, set up a new power market, in which transmission constraints sharply …

Federal and state policies in the U.S. subsidize electricity generation from 1.4 million rooftop solar arrays because … solar irradiance, technologies of electricity generators, and grid characteristics, the value of these benefits, and …

While time-varying retail electricity pricing is very popular with economists, that support is not matched among … electricity pricing -- critical-peak pricing -- and suggest how it might be designed to more accurately match retail price spikes …

We estimate the effects of electricity shortages on Indian manufacturers, instrumenting with supply shifts from … interruptible retail electricity contracts could substantially reduce the impact of shortages …