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-efficiency programs on electricity consumption and carbon dioxide emissions. The approach draws on a partial-adjustment econometric model … of electricity demand and represents the results of a reverse auction for electricity savings from different levels of … programs at reducing electricity consumption. The results suggest that supply curves for conserved electricity are upward …
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Information failures may help explain the so-called “energy efficiency gap” in commercial buildings, which account for approximately 20 percent of annual US energy consumption and CO2 emissions. Building owners may not fully comprehend what influences energy use in their buildings and may...
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) and energy efficiency (EE) investments. We specify a model that relates electricity demand to previous EE DSM spending … expenditures reduce electricity demand and that this effect persists for a number of years. Our findings suggest that ratepayer … funded DSM expenditures between 1992 and 2006 produced a central estimate of 0.9 percent savings in electricity consumption …
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Identifying the factors that influence electricity demand in the continental United States and mathematically … characterizing them are important for developing electricity consumption projections. The price elasticity of demand is especially … important, since the electricity price effects of policy implementation can be substantial and the demand response to policy …
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Twenty states in the United States have adopted energy efficiency resource standards (EERS) that specify absolute or percentage reductions in energy use relative to business as usual. We examine how an EERS compares to policies oriented to meeting objectives, such as reducing greenhouse gas...
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