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Time-varying prices are thought to be critical for increasing economic efficiency of the power system. However, a …
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A sustainable energy system is key for addressing the world's environmental and social challenges. The U.S is the second largest consumer of energy, with increased energy consumption in the previous half-century. To curb energy demand, it is essential to understand the relative price...
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energy prices increase compared to price decreases. MPCs are also larger for households with low income and/or saving buffer … subsidies on energy for Belgian low-income households are much more effective in supporting non-energy consumption than the …
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The seminal studies by Allcott and Mullainathan (2010), Allcott (2011), and Allcott and Rogers (2014) suggest that social comparison-based home energy reports (HER) are a cost-effective non-price intervention to stimulate energy conservation. The present paper demonstrates the context-dependency...
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global coverage, and special emphasis is given to the dynamic nature of demand, as well as to interactions between income …
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This paper is a first attempt to investigate the effect of climate on the demand for different energy vectors from different final users. The ultimate motivation for this is to arrive to a consistent evaluation of the impact of climate change on key consumption goods and primary factors such as...
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Households reactions to efficiency gains in heating, known as rebound effects, are investigated in this article. First …-spending of efficiency gains savings on other goods and services than heating is assessed (indirect rebound). Overall, about 20 … limit. In addition, we find that low income households increase more their heating usage than affluent households when …
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Crude oil has become a prominent indicator for economic activities worldwide, due to its outstanding importance in the supply of the world's energy demands. Many economists believe that there is a strong relationship between the growth rate of a country and oil-prices. As such we attempt to...
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This paper analyzes the relationship between information and communication technology (ICT) and energy demand. We construct a comprehensive cross-country cross-industry panel data set covering 13 years, 10 OECD countries, and 27 industries. Using up to 2889 country-industry observations, we find...
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in the presence of supra-national agreements such as EU 20-20-20. The potential for energy efficiency improvements in one … develops a general equilibrium analysis of increased efficiency in productive energy use, identifying a range of channels … efficiency in one nation does impact energy use in others. However, the sectoral and spatial distribution of positive and …
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