By providing feedback to customers on home electricity and natural gas usage with a focus on peer comparisons … conducted by utility companies providing electricity (the Sacramento Municipal Utility District (SMUD)) and electricity and …

We find that households living in California homes built in the 1960s and 1970s had high electricity consumption in … 2000 relative to houses of more recent vintages because the price of electricity at the time of home construction was low …. Homes built in the early 1990s had lower electricity consumption than homes of earlier vintages because the price of …

In this paper, we develop a methodology for estimating marginal emissions of electricity demand that vary by location … electricity markets and shifting load profiles throughout the day. Using data available for 2007 through 2009, with a focus on … electricity load management and environmental goals: the hours when electricity is the least expensive to produce tend to be the …

building stock's total electricity consumption. This paper exploits a unique panel of commercial buildings to investigate the … impact of building vintage, contract incentives, and human capital on electricity consumption across commercial structures …. We document that electricity consumption and building quality are complements, not substitutes. Technological progress …

Most US consumers are charged a near-constant retail price for electricity, despite substantial hourly variation in the …-time pricing" for electricity and increase price elasticity of demand. This paper simulates the effects of this increased demand … elasticity using counterfactual simulations in a structural model of the Pennsylvania-Jersey-Maryland electricity market. The …

Electricity restructuring has created the opportunity for producers to exercise market power. Oligopolists increase … implications of production inefficiencies attributed to market power in the Pennsylvania, New Jersey, and Maryland electricity … market. Air pollution fell substantially during 1999, the year in which both electricity restructuring and new environmental …

We study the dynamics of residential electricity demand by exploiting a natural experiment that produced large and long …