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studies a program run by a small municipally owned electric utility to reduce demand on certain peak demand days. An email …
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demand fully account for the consumer surplus disparities between high- and low-income households and between White and …
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Economic policies often involve dynamic interventions, where individuals receive repeated interventions over multiple periods. This dynamics makes past responses informative to predict future responses and ultimate outcomes depend on the history of interventions. Despite these phenomena,...
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One concern with subsidies for low-carbon technologies is that they tend to go predominantly to high-income households. Previous research has shown, for example, that the top income quintile receives 60% of subsidies for rooftop solar and 90% of subsidies for electric vehicles. This paper finds...
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Since the 1970s, high volumetric (per kilowatt-hour) electricity prices have been justified in many policy discussions as encouraging more efficient use of electricity and placing more of the cost burden on those who are less prudent in their use. The argument has been used in support of...
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that traditionally did not have much generation capacity and that are far away from centers of demand. In this paper, I …
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Despite the incentives of incumbent domestic listed corporations (DLCs) in the electricity generation industry, private equity, institutional investors, and foreign corporations have played an outsized role in financing the energy transition. These new entrants are twice as likely to create...
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demand-side flexibility. We model power systems in three U.S. regions: Mid-Atlantic, Texas, and WECC, under varying … scenarios, flexible data centers reduce costs by shifting load from peak to off-peak hours, flattening net demand, and …
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The marginal cost of electricity fluctuates hour-by-hour, yet retail customers typically face flat prices. Using data from all seven US wholesale markets and a new method to evaluate alternative rates set in advance that accounts for equilibrium price effects, we estimate efficiency gains from...
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As electricity systems transition toward more variable renewable energy, flexible demand has emerged as a critical tool … for grid management. Yet a fundamental question remains: are emerging smart technologies sufficient to unlock demand … with three distinct demand response programs: a fully automated system requiring no action; app-enabled smart devices …
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