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 …

This paper provides an ex post evaluation of how changes to a building energy code affect energy consumption. Using … only. These findings underscore the importance of accounting for age versus vintage effects and all sources of energy … literature casting doubt on whether ex ante forecasts of energy efficiency policies and investments can provide useful …

In response to the 1973 oil embargo, many states began passing building energy codes in order to promote energy … efficiency. While the vast majority of states have energy codes in place, policymakers are now attempting to legislate energy … codes at the federal level to help address more recent concerns about energy efficiency and climate change. Nevertheless …

The literature has shown the power of social norms to promote residential energy conservation, particularly among high …

"Nudges" are being widely promoted to encourage energy conservation. We show that the popular electricity conservation … energy conservation nudges need to be targeted to be most effective …

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 …, consumption fell substantially over about 60 days, averaging 12% per household; consumption then rebounded to within 3% of pre …

the extensive margin response (e.g., technology adoption). Using almost two billion energy bills, we estimate spatially …

-hour rises as a household consumes more electricity per month. More recently, in California, opponents of a proposal to lower … volumetric prices and replace the revenue through fixed monthly charges have suggested that the change would just benefit "energy … effectively such pricing targets profligate residential electricity consumption. I then look more broadly at the energy usage …

the highest energy use per capita in the world. Our dataset consists of 207,325 monthly electricity meter readings from a … a national message reminding households that Qatar prioritizes energy conservation. The treatments reduce electricity …

energy conservation during summer peak load days when the social cost of generation is the highest. We estimate that our …