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 …

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 …

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 …

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

electricity consumption …

critical peak pricing intervention reduces electricity consumption by 14%. Using unique high frequency appliance-level data, we …

Recent efforts to restructure and partially deregulate electricity markets have renewed interest in understanding how … 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 use detailed microeconomic data to investigate why aggregate residential electricity consumption in California has … determining electricity demand. We show that building codes have been effective for homes built after 1983. We find that houses … electricity at the time of construction was low. Employing our regression estimates, we construct an aggregate residential …