We evaluate incentives for residential energy upgrades in Italy using data from an original survey of Italian …-monetary incentives on the propensity to replace the heating equipment with a more efficient one. To get around adverse selection and free …-effectiveness of incentives of size comparable to that in the Italian tax credit program is generally not favorable. …

I analyze energy-efficiency policy as a prescription of a minimum-efficiency standard for energyusing household goods … like cars, building insulation, and home appliances. Such a policy has two effects. At the intensive margin, a household … consequences. I analyze the equilibrium effects of a minimum-efficiency standard, taking price adjustments and household …

participation information, to study the uptake of energy efficiency incentives and their effect on residential electricity … reduction in electricity usage. Those that do not receive incentives reduce usage by about 16%. Our results appear to be driven … structural characteristics of their homes, utility-provided longitudinal electricity usage records, plus utility program …

Traditional large appliances absorb a large share of residential electricity consumption and represent important …. In this paper we analyse the electricity consumption of a set of four traditional ‘white goods’ in a panel of ten EU … innovation and trade policies for achieving efficiency targets which directly impact the amount of electricity consumed by …

This paper is one of the limited studies to investigate rebound effects in sectoral electricity consumption and the … electricity consumption from 9.2 MWh per capita in 2010 to 8.6 MWh per capita in 2015. However, following a significant decline … since 2010, electricity consumption in the main New Zealand sectors is increasing. Energy conservation could play an …

government launched an unprecedented marketization reform in 2015 to deregulate the electricity price. This paper examines the … impact of the electricity price deregulation in the industry level. We first construct two-stage dynamic game models by … with and without electricity regulation, and examine the changes in electricity price, electricity generation, coal price …

non-participating households to estimate the average treatment effect of participating in either program on electricity … usage. We fit models with household-by-season, season-by-year, and household-by-year fixed effects to account for all … past electricity usage, or if we gain by adding structural characteristics of the home, including heating system type. We …

Accurate information about electricity generation and consumption is crucial to power system modelling. Several … example, annual electricity generation from wind and solar power in Germany differs by as much as 10% - 20%, depending on who … provided, nor is it constant. The deviation is particularly worrying in Germany, where peak electricity demand might be …

Globally about 800 million people live without electricity at home, over two thirds of which are in sub-Saharan Africa … activities. Planning electricity access infrastructure and allocating resources efficiently requires a careful assessment of the …-scale electrification planning studies have been based on top-down electricity demand targets. Yet, poorly representing the heterogeneity in …