programs that affect energy supply and demand. I briefly discuss the distributional and incentive impacts of many of these …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 …

fraction of the energy charge and the identity of the half-hour periods when demand charges occur are only known with certainty …This paper presents estimates of the customer-level demand for electricity by industrial and commercial customers … purchasing electricity according to the half-hourly energy prices from the England and Wales (E&W) electricity market. These …

events during California's energy crisis in 2000-01. The analysis uses a five-year panel of disaggregate billing and weather … assumptions regarding a consumer's knowledge of energy prices. We find that after a rapid price increase in summer 2000 …-crisis levels after a price cap was imposed. Under the price cap public appeals for energy conservation and a remunerative voluntary …

China and India. Most projections show energy demand growing as much or more in absolute terms to 2040 than previous multi …This paper assesses trends in the global energy sector through 2040 by harmonizing multiple projections issued by … private, government, and inter-governmental organizations based on methods from “Global Energy Outlooks Comparison: Methods …

Energy security is the ability of households, businesses, and government to accommodate disruptions in supply in energy … markets. This survey considers the economic dimensions of energy security, political and other non-economic security concerns … and discusses policy approaches that could enhance U.S. energy security. A number of points emerge. First, energy security …

What induces clean energy transitions? When transitional dynamics exhibit strong path dependence, a temporary shock to … reduced-form estimates and explores conditions for triggering sustained future clean energy transitions …

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 …. Our findings highlight the importance of accounting for consumption dynamics when evaluating energy policy …

consumers respond to price changes. Several interrelated problems complicate demand analyses of these markets, including … 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 …

We estimate an aggregate production function with constant elasticity of substitution between energy and a capital …/labor composite using U.S. data. The implied measure of energy-saving technical change appears to respond strongly to the oil … suggestive of a model of directed technical change, with low short-run substitutability between energy and capital/labor but …

Federal tax policy provides a broad array of incentives for energy investment. I review those policies and construct … estimates of marginal effective tax rates for different energy capital investments as of 2007. Effective tax rates vary widely …