urban Chinese households owned an air conditioner; by 2003 this numberrose to 62 percent. The evidence suggests a similar … ownershipand use model based on household income, climate and demographicparameters. The second combines ownership forecasts and …

model-based scenario, in which wind energy provides 20% of the U.S. electricity demand in 2030. The report discusses a set … already have a high penetration of wind power (i.e., in the range of 7 to 20% of electricity consumption in countries such as … United States as well as in Europe. A large-scale introduction of wind power causes a number of challenges for electricity …

electric power plants. The effects of these bills on electricity costs depend on features of the bills, on the mix of …-specific estimates of the effects of different legislation on electricity costs. This paper presents sample results from a larger …

saturation, with ownership rates in urban households reaching 92%. Rural markets continue to grow from a much lower base. As a … amounts of electricity by 2020, totaling 16.4 TWh annually by that year, compared to a case in which the efficiency … with the label would essentially flatten the consumption of electricity for refrigerator use throughout most of the next …

electricity generation and the National Energy Modeling System (NEMS) is used to estimate the national effects of PV electricity … generation. Adoption is assumed to occur if levelized PV system cost is less than the local average retail electricity rate at … $3{sub 1994}/W, rooftop systems are found to be cost effective in 16% of detached single-family households in the U.S. by …

A higher penetration of compact fluorescent lamps (CFLs) for household lighting can reduce growth in peak electricity … demand, reduce sales of subsidized electricity, and lessen environmental impacts. This paper describes an economic analysis …

-battery home system or other electricity options, but they can afford to own a battery (in some cases more than one battery) and … can pay for it to be charged on a regular basis. Because the typical households that use batteries are located far from …

comparison sample of households were also collected and analyzed to consider initial and season-change price effects of the rate … and the effect of supplemental information treatments on response. Over half of surveyed participating households reported … that they had made a great deal of effort to adjust their electricity consumption to the rate. Despite this, load data …

This paper investigates how critical-peak pricing (CPP)affects households with different usage and income levels, with …-use customers, while low-use customers save significantly more inpercentage reduction of annual electricity bills than do high …

economic benefits only for households with high clothes dryer usage or for households with high electricity prices and … resistance clothes dryers, and therefore have the potential to save substantial amounts of electricity. While not currently …