We document substantial rigidity in household electricity demand in response to large price shocks. We partnered with … an electricity retailer to run a field experiment in which randomly-selected households received discounts of up to 50 …% on their total electricity bill or up to 95% off their per unit cost of electricity for a full month. We show that the …

bank to hold consists of electricity delivering assets. Electricity delivering assets don't need to be physical assets such … of electricity from power producers. Electricity delivering assets can hold their economic value more effectively than … advocates a portfolio of diversified electricity delivering assets that offers more social benefits than gold and retains …

distinguished resources – electricity and water – in the same experimental setting. We find that, on average, our social comparison … electricity savings are impersistent and occur in the evening hours, which only slightly overlap with peak hours. We argue that … electricity conservation due to social comparisons is driven by short-run changes in households' electricity saving behavior …

air conditioning, with widely varying particle pollution. Overall, residential electricity demand overall grows by 1 ….1% when PM2.5 rises by 10 ug/m3. I compare the pollution-electricity response to the well-known heat-electricity response, and … show how it varies over the socioeconomic distribution. Local pollution control has the co-benefit of reducing electricity …

The spot price of electricity is highly skewed and heavy-tailed, as a result of the interaction of different variables … variables in an electricity market, reducing the limitations that normality and parametric density functions impose. The … likelihood criterion. The study case is the Colombian electricity market, where the SNP distribution outperforms the normal …

We investigate the combined effect of an Emission Trading System (ETS) and renewable energy sources on electricity … fossil fuel and renewable production, where electricity demand is uncertain. Increasing renewable capacity creates a tradeoff … for large electricity producers: a higher share of renewable production can be priced at the higher marginal cost of …

Research on electricity futures markets has to date not explored the role that market liquidity may play in determining … risk premia. Further, no detailed empirical examination of both liquidity and risk premia in the New Zealand electricity …

household electricity consumption. These programs are designed to increase awareness of household energy consumption with … but participated later. The evidence suggest that the customers who participated in the survey reduced their electricity …

uncertain costs and are uncertain about the availability of production units, as in wholesale electricity markets. We find that …

Time-of-use (TOU) pricing for electricity is an effective means to allocate electricity, though regulators are … in which households facing TOU pricing were given an in-home display, providing real-time feedback on electricity … consumption. Receipt of the device results in a 3% reduction in average electricity consumption. The reduction in demand is …