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effects on the specific change to green electricity contracts. Our estimation results also imply an important role of … to green electricity contracts. Furthermore, several household specific factors like relocation decisions as well as … new explanation patterns for the phenomenon that relatively few households regularly change their electricity contracts …
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-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 …
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Drawing on the 2009 and 2017 waves of the National Household Transportation Survey, this paper models the determinants … specifications and estimation techniques, including instrumental variable estimation to account for the possible endogeneity of fuel … prices, as well as quantile regression to account for heterogeneity according to driving intensity. A similar pattern of …
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This article explores how law can use individual behavior to stabilize and reduce U.S. energy consumption. Drawing on the work of social scientists and behavioral researchers, it concludes that many opportunities exist to influence individual behavior to increase energy efficiency and reduce...
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Accurate projections of electricity demand growth by end-use customer class (residential, commercial, industrial) are … necessary for energy policy modelling, resource planning, and electricity pricing and procurement. Motivated by the expected … trend of rising retail electricity prices in the US and diverse price elasticity estimates found by extant studies, we …
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sector. Yet, concerns are mounting that households rebound, meaning that they adapt to efficiency gains by increasing their … demand, as efficiency improvements reduce relative costs of energy. This study investigates the elasticity of household … energy consumption for space heating with respect to changes in household heating efficiency. We account for the simultaneity …
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