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Iran is an energy-rich country and one of the world's main oil-exporters, but its own rapid energy consumption in …, massive energy subsidies, and mismanagement of the energy sector are blamed for increasing energy consumption, which has led … to very high energy intensity, fiscal imbalances, unequal income distribution, and environmental degradation. In response …
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Resolving the resource adequacy problem has been usually entrusted to the imposition of some kind of long-term capacity requirements or to forward markets. The Operating Reserve Demand Curve (ORDC), which is linked to short-term market conditions and does not require central planning, has been...
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Research on electricity futures markets has to date not explored the role that market liquidity may play in determining risk premia. Further, no detailed empirical examination of both liquidity and risk premia in the New Zealand electricity futures market are discernible. Using data from October...
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This study analyses the roles that energy and other input prices play in reducing energy intensity of each of the 21 … generalized method of moments (GMM) estimation methods. Based on the GMM results, I find average energy price elasticity of -0 ….34 for the overall sector. Capital is complementary with energy in most cases while labour and energy are substitutes in …
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Information provision is a key element of government energy-efficiency policy, but the information that is provided is … energy cost information based on average national usage and energy prices. We conduct an online randomized controlled trial … significantly better choices. Consumers invest about the same amount overall in energy-efficiency, but the allocation is much better …
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-OPEC producers, a profit-maximizing, monolithic OPEC, and an International Energy Agency that punishes OPEC by releasing oil from … energy industry, whose profits may not be maximized at oil prices that maximize GDP. Prices equal to marginal costs would be …
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energy conservation during summer peak load days when the social cost of generation is the highest. We estimate that our …
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a personal touch can serve as a nudge to influence the uptake of residential energy audits. Our results show that a low … suggest a cost-effective nudge for increasing energy audit uptake and voluntary energy efficiency adoption …
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Untapped improvements in energy efficiency in the residential sector may deliver large savings in energy use and the CO … over 700%. We combine the monthly meter readings with documentation about each household’s heating-related energy …) to form a panel dataset. We estimate the effect of the energy efficiency renovations on natural gas consumption …
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carbon tax, an energy tax, or simple tariff increases to help curb imports of gas-fired electricity from neighboring …
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