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On Aug. 8, 2005, President Bush signed the Energy Policy Act of 2005 (PL 109-58). This was the first major piece of energy legislation enacted since 1992 following five years of Congressional efforts to pass energy legislation. Among other things, the law contains tax incentives worth over $14...
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This paper examines the effect of environmental policies on technological innovation in the specific case of renewable energy. The analysis is conducted using patent data on a panel of 25 countries over the period 1978-2003. It is found that public policy plays a significant role in determining...
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This study examines a field experiment in Texas that includes pricing and informational interventions to encourage energy conservation during summer peak load days when the social cost of generation is the highest. We estimate that our critical peak pricing intervention reduces electricity...
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household electricity demand that addresses these difficulties. We estimate the model using data for a representative sample of …
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the widespread use of increasing-block pricing (IBP), under which the marginal price to the household increases as its … has adopted some of the most steeply increasing-block tariffs in electric utility history. Combining household … approach to studying (or controlling for) income distribution effects by using median household income within a census block …
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goods has expanded from household utilities, toll road access and software downloads to standard consumption goods paid by … decisions. This paper exploits hourly household electricity consumption data collected by "smart" electricity meters to examine … receipt of an electricity bill, but the response varies considerably by household type and season. Our results also suggest …
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been flat since 1980. Using unique micro data, we document the role that household demographics and ideology play in … electricity consumption time series index from 1980 to 2006. We show that certain micro determinants of household electricity …
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Indonesian economic crisis on household welfare there. Using only pre-crisis household information, we estimate the compensating …-parametric methods. We find that virtually every household was severely impacted, although it was the urban poor that fared the worst … the geographic location of the household mattered even within urban or rural areas and household income categories …
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The D4 RIN is the tradable compliance certificate for the biomass-based diesel mandate in the Renewable Fuel Standard (RFS). Understanding the price dynamics of the D4 RIN is important for understanding the RFS because its price sets a ceiling on the ethanol RIN (D6) and because some observers...
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Generating electricity from renewable sources is more expensive than conventional approaches, but reduces pollution externalities. Analyzing the tradeoff is much more challenging than often presumed, because the value of electricity is extremely dependent on the time and location at which it is...
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