The Government of Montenegro is preparing an electricity tariff reform due to recent developments in the national and … regional electricity markets. Electricity tariffs for residential consumers in Montenegro are likely to gradually increase by … Montenegro, the authors show that the anticipated price increase will result in a significant increase in households' energy …

This paper examines the economic and social implications of the current system of residential electricity subsidies in … electricity consumption, a welfare database, and a specially commissioned qualitative assessment of household and service provider … attitudes and experiences. Affordability is only one of many concerns among electricity users, with reliability of supply and …

This study assesses the accuracy of time-series econometric methods in forecasting electricity demand in developing … simple heuristic models, which assume that electricity demand grows at an exogenous rate or is proportional to real gross …

people use electricity. As expected, users are disproportionately urban and rich. In communities with access to electricity … electricity vary in availability, with six countries allowing 30 kilowatt-hours or less of electricity usage a month at low prices … needed for electricity at the subsistence and other levels. Affordability varied across countries, with grid electricity even …

dependency on hydropower for electricity. Given highly volatile international energy prices and expected global warming, it is … becoming increasingly important to manage the demand for electricity. However, the country has long been faced with a … significant problem of electricity metering. About one-third of total energy is lost for technical and nontechnical reasons. This …

that poor households benefit disproportionately from water and electricity subsidies, that they are well-targeted to the … subsidies for water and electricity services. Their analysis of a wide range of subsidy models from around the developing world …

Improving electricity access in low-income countries is a challenging problem because of the high costs of grid … extension and low demand for grid electricity in rural areas. This study elucidates these constraints by analyzing poor … households' willingness-to-pay for different types of electricity access, including lower cost off-grid technologies. The …

Energy poverty is a frequently used term among energy specialists, but unfortunately the concept is rather loosely … defined. Several existing approaches measure energy poverty by defining an energy poverty line as the minimum quantity of … based on energy demand. The energy poverty line is defined as the threshold point at which energy consumption begins to rise …

energy poverty line. The paper finds that although the use of both traditional (biomass energy burned in conventional stoves …) and modern (electricity and kerosene) sources improves household consumption and income, the return on modern sources is … poverty line, the paper finds that some 58 percent of rural households in Bangladesh are energy poor, compared with 45 percent …