residential electricity and natural gas demand for the world's sixth largest economy - California. The advantage of the proposed … show that failing to account for extensive margin adjustment in electricity demand leads to a significant underestimate of … the future impacts on electricity consumption. We further show that reductions in natural gas demand more than offset any …

We study the electricity consumption of San Diego-area households following a series of price changes and related … conservation program had significant, but transitory, effects. Further, a large share of households reduced electricity consumption …

daily or monthly usage rises. There is no cost basis for differentiating marginal price of electricity by consumption level … by these increasing-block electricity tariffs. I find that the rate structure does redistribute income to lower …

“Nudges” are being widely promoted to encourage energy conservation. We show that the popular electricity conservation … “nudge” of providing feedback to households on own and peers' home electricity usage in a home electricity report is two to … liberals to opt out of receiving the home electricity report and to report disliking the report. Our results suggest that …

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 …

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 …