This paper provides the first empirical estimates of the relationship between temperatures and household electricity … consumption in Colombia, using electricity billing and weather data from 2010 to 2019. I find that higher temperatures (or higher … values of the heat index) increase electricity consumption, with the largest effects observed for high-income households in …

We evaluate incentives for residential energy upgrades in Italy using data from an original survey of Italian …-monetary incentives on the propensity to replace the heating equipment with a more efficient one. To get around adverse selection and free …-effectiveness of incentives of size comparable to that in the Italian tax credit program is generally not favorable. …

Since the start of sharp electricity tariff increases in 2008, South African household demand for electricity has not … been significantly affected. However, the combination of economic realities and ongoing electricity tariff increases will … eventually compel households to reduce their electricity usage. This research explores the ability of South African households to …

The electricity market liberalisation for households in Slovenia aims to encourage new suppliers' entries and thus … greater market competition in electricity supply. It is interesting to investigate how households' consumption in Slovenia has … perceptions in electricity consumption and in using more energy savings approaches in consumption of electrical energy. In 2010 …

Empirical evidence on households' awareness of electricity prices and potentially divergent demand responses to price …, finding that only those households that are informed about prices are sensitive to price changes, whereas the electricity … demand of uninformed households is entirely price-inelastic. Based on these results, to curb the electricity consumption of …

In this article, we investigate the heterogeneity in household electricity demand in Switzerland. We use a quantile … regression approach in order to assess the impacts of electricity prices, income and other socio-demographic characteristics … deciles of electricity use do not react to changes in electricity prices, while those situated at upper-end of the electricity …

This dataset was collected to understand how Norwegian households responded to the electricity price shock due to the … European energy crisis. It consists of hourly metered electricity consumption data from 1,136 residential consumers from … October 2020 to March 2022. In addition, consumer characteristics and their responses to the extraordinarily high electricity …

Empirical evidence on households' awareness of electricity prices and potentially divergent demand responses to price …, finding that only those households that are informed about prices are sensitive to price changes, whereas the electricity … demand of uninformed households is entirely price-inelastic. Based on these results, to curb the electricity consumption of …

Empirical evidence on the response of German households to electricity price changes is sparse. Using panel data … changes, whereas the electricity demand of uninformed households is entirely price-inelastic …

Reducing household electricity consumption is of central relevance to climate policy given the share of 12.2% of the …), this paper estimates the contribution of individual appliances to household electricity demand using the conditional demand … to the conditional distribution of household electricity consumption. This heterogeneity indicates that there are quite …