This analysis provides an international perspective geared towards understanding the future demands being placed on the world's electricity system. It focuses upon the household or residential demand for electricity in a number of high-income and middle-income countries that may raise power...

The demand for motor fuel should decline when its price rises, but how exactly does that happen? Do people drive less, do they drive more carefully to conserve fuel, or do they do both? To answer these questions, we use data from the German Mobility Panel from 2004 to 2019, taking advantage of...

The United Nations' objective to provide electricity to the 1.3 billion people without access in developing countries comes at high costs. Little evidence exists on socioeconomic impacts of electrification. This paper rigorously investigates effects of a large grid extension program in Rwanda on...

The substitutability between traditional fuels and modern fuels is essential for examine the possibility of energy transition. The existing literature on China's interfuel substitution is mainly based on the translog function form and often the global curvature is not imposed. There is also a...

High hopes are pinned on market-based dissemination of off-grid technologies to complement expensive grid extension in providing electricity to the unconnected 1.1 billion people in developing countries. In this paper, we elicit the revealed Willingness-to-Pay for different solar technologies in...

We estimate time-varying income and price elasticities for energy demand for a 26- country, middle-income (primarily non-OECD) balanced panel that spans 1996-2014. To do so, we employ a recently developed nonparametric local linear dummy estimation method that estimates the trend and coefficient...

More than 1.3 billion people lack access to electricity. The UN have proclaimed the goal of providing electricity to all by 2030. In recent years, Pico-Photovoltaic kits have become a lower cost alternative to investment intensive grid electrification. Using a randomized controlled trial we...

In this review we assess both the reasons/hypotheses for why GDP and price elasticities of energy/electricity demand might change over time, and the evidence from papers that have addressed that issue. We consider papers that have used parametric methods (e.g., endogenous or exogenous breaks,...

China’s global quest for resources, in particular oil and natural gas, has received unprecedented worldwide attention and scrutiny. This is partly because of China’s own high-profile, active energy diplomacy, its national oil companies’ acquisitions in the key exporting regions of oil and...

By employing dynamic panel models we estimate the price and output elasticities of aggregate industrial electricity demand for OECD and non-OECD countries. The unbalanced data span 1978-2016 and include 35 OECD/hi-income countries and 30 non-OECD/middle-income countries, and our dynamic panel...