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accountfor behavior and prices; compiled participation rates and elasticityvalues from six DR options offered to large customers …
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Demand response (DR) has been broadly recognized to be an integral component of well-functioning electricity markets, although currently underdeveloped in most regions. Among the various initiatives undertaken to remedy this deficiency, public utility commissions (PUC) and utilities have...
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While more than 70 utilities in the U.S. have offered voluntary RTP tariffs on either a pilot or permanent basis, most have operated in relative obscurity. To bring this broad base of experience to bear on policymakers current efforts to stimulate price responsive demand, we conducted a survey...
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readily available data. We developsimple econometric models of wholesale power prices in the West thatmight be used for market … in the West and might be used to identify potentially anomalousprices. In contrast, we find that the simulated prices … prices that we question theirusefulness for explaining price formation in the West and hence theirusefulness as a market …
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Dynamic retail pricing, especially real-time pricing (RTP), has been widely heralded as a panacea for providing much-needed demand response in electricity markets. However, in designing default service for competitive retail markets, demand response has been an afterthought, and in some cases...
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customers response to short-term fluctuations in electricity prices are based on theories of rational firm behavior, where … prices since 1998. We look at stories interviewees told about why and how they respond to RTP, why some customers report that … when prices are high ($0.50/kWh). Reasons customers gave for why they weren't price-responsive include implicit value …
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elasticities to account for behavior and prices; compiled participation rates and elasticity values from six DR options offered to … elasticity approach for large-customer DR options that rely on customer-initiated response to prices, rather than the engineering …-residential customers results in 1-3% reductions in their class peak demand in response to prices or incentive payments of $500/MWh …
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prices indexed to the real-time spot market, and thus have no advance knowledge of prices. Because the price responsiveness …
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Economists have advocated for real-time pricing (RTP) of electricity on the basis of the gains in economic efficiency that would result from charging customers the contemporaneous marginal cost of supplying electricity instead of the average cost. In recent years, RTP has also become the subject...
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concerns, rising electricity and natural gas prices, and lean economic times that motivate states to look more aggressively for …
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