Don't Forget the Demand Side

Comparing supply side and demand side options for electrifying a local area using life cycle analysis of energy technologies and demand side programs

The main aim of this paper is to select the best portfolio of renewable energy technologies (RETs) for electrifying an elected area which is not connected to any other grids. Minimizing total costs of the system is considered as the main factor in finding the best decision. In order to make the optimum plan more applicable, the technique of life cycle analysis is applied. This technique takes i...

Foresighted Demand Side Management

We consider a smart grid with an independent system operator (ISO), and distributed aggregators who have energy storage and purchase energy from the ISO to serve its customers. All the entities in the system are foresighted: each aggregator seeks to minimize its own long-term payments for energy purchase and operational costs of energy storage by deciding how much energy to buy from the ISO, an...

In Focus Labour – the Demand Side

Inequality and Growth: The Neglected Demand Side

The supply side of our model consists in an endogenous growth model with monopolistic competition and product innovation. Together with the hierarchy of wants over the innovative goods, this setting enables us to study a mechanism that so far has been largely neglected in the literature: the role that inequality plays for the prices that innovators can charge and the corresponding quantities th...

The Role of Demand-side Initiatives

Past breakthroughs in communication technology—the invention of the printing press and the telegraph—led to major economic upheavals. What are the implications of the more recent information and communication technologies (ICTs) for the developing world? Optimists believe that modern ICTs will allow developing countries to catch up with the developed world, while pessimists claim that the growi...