the widespread use of increasing-block pricing (IBP), under which the marginal price to the household increases as its … daily or monthly usage rises. There is no cost basis for differentiating marginal price of electricity by consumption level … has adopted some of the most steeply increasing-block tariffs in electric utility history. Combining household …

the widespread use of increasing-block pricing (IBP), under which the marginal price to the household increases as its … daily or monthly usage rises. There is no cost basis for differentiating marginal price of electricity by consumption level … has adopted some of the most steeply increasing-block tariffs in electric utility history. Combining household …

-hour rises as a household consumes more electricity per month. More recently, in California, opponents of a proposal to lower … hogs". In this paper, I first investigate characteristics of households who are high electricity consumers and ask how …Since the 1970s, high volumetric (per kilowatt-hour) electricity prices have been justified in many policy discussions …