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an effort to make the 200 kWh mark. Assuming that the increase in electricity demand was met with imports and domestic … would pay the electricity bills of residential customers in April and May 2020, effectively making electricity free, as long … when the policy is in place low-volume consumers increase their electricity usage and high-volume consumers decrease it in …
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price elasticity of natural gas demand in the residential sector is very limited and based on inference from situations with … estimate the price elasticity of the demand for natural gas. To isolate behavior, attention is restricted to those households … that made no structural energy-efficiency upgrades to their homes, and thus kept the stock of gas-using capital fixed. We …
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analyses were based on electricity delivered to all sectors (residential, commercial, and industrial), and cooling demand is … likely to be driven primarily by the latter two. In this paper, we use hourly electricity demand from a sample of Italian … electrical appliance. We find that temperature accounts for a very small share of daily electricity demand. Only on exceptionally …
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Concerns about climate change are growing, and so is the demand for information about the costs and benefits of … mitigating greenhouse gas emissions. This paper seeks to estimate the benefits of climate change mitigation, as measured by the …
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The implementation of decarbonization policies depends crucially on the public’s willingness to pay for them. We use stated preference methods to investigate the public’s preferences for such policies. We ask three research questions. First, does the willingness to pay (WTP) for each ton of...
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price elasticity of natural gas demand in the residential sector is very limited and based on inference from situations with … estimate the price elasticity of the demand for natural gas. To isolate behavior, attention is restricted to those households … that made no structural energy-efficiency upgrades to their homes, and thus kept the stock of gas-using capital fixed. We …
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2 associated emissions. Yet empirical assessments have been difficult and controversial. We collect monthly natural gas … from district heating, from January 2013 to April 2017, a period over which the residential natural gas tariffs rose by …) to form a panel dataset. We estimate the effect of the energy efficiency renovations on natural gas consumption …
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Large but temporary price increases are sometimes deployed on days when the demand for electricity is extremely high … 2013 and April 2016, natural gas and electricity prices in Ukraine increased dramatically (up to 300% of the initial rates …). We exploit variation in tariffs over time and across customers to estimate the price elasticity of electricity demand …
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We study residential demand for electricity and gas, working with nationwide household-level data that cover recent … longitudinal component (up to 6 observations per dwelling). We estimate static and dynamic models of electricity and gas demand. We … of the own price elasticity of electricity demand in the -0.860 to -0.667 range, while the own price elasticity of gas …
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