Please cite this article in press as: Lévêque, F. France’s New Electricity Act: A Potential Windfall Profit for Electricity Suppliers and a Potential Incompatibility with the EU LawElectr. J. (2011), doi:10.1016/ j.tej.2011.01.016 François Lévêque is Professor of Law and Economics at Mines ParisTech, Director at the Center of Industrial Economics (Cerna), and Editor of Energypolicyblog.com. His...

Residential demand for electricity is estimated for China using a unique household level dataset. Household electricity demand is specified as a function of local electricity price, household income, and a number of social-economic variables at household level. We find that the residential demand for electricity responds rather sensitively to its own price in China, which implies that there is ...

This paper aimed at estimation of the per capita consumption of electricity in residential sector based on economic indicators in Iran. The Genetic Algorithm Electricity Demand Model (GAEDM) was developed based on the past data using the genetic algorithm approach (GAA). The economic indicators used during the model development include: gross domestic product (GDP) in terms of per capita and re...

The aim of this paper is to present impact studies of economic and environment related constraints on the German electricity spot market. The analysis was carried out using the system dynamics based model for the German electricity market, called “Zertsim”. The model was applied for the first time in a workshop with entrepreneurs from the region of Karlsruhe in Germany. One result of the worksh...

Due to rising fossil fuel and electricity prices and the overall need to reduce carbon emissions, there is a growing interest in the utilisation of micro-generation amongst electricity consumers and governments alike. Electricity consumers are installing small scale generators on their premises, which are also being connected to existing low voltage (LV) electricity supply networks. High penetr...

Present study investigates the effect of soaring residential electricity price on the welfare of rural individuals in Guilan Province by Almost Ideal Demand System (AIDS) in which the elasticity’s and welfare variations were calculated by Compensation Variations (CV) and Equivalent Variations (EV) for the time period of 1991-2012. It was shown that the absolute value of income and price elastic...

Energy Institute at Haas working papers are circulated for discussion and comment purposes. They have not been peer-reviewed or been subject to review by any editorial board. Short sections of text, not to exceed two paragraphs, may be quoted without explicit permission provided that full credit is given to the source. Prior to the 1990s, most electricity customers in the U.S. were served by re...

a r t i c l e i n f o Keywords: Electricity market integration in Europe Market coupling Time-varying price convergence Fractional cointegration This study extends existing literature on the assessment of electricity market integration in Europe, by developing and testing hypotheses on the convergence of electricity wholesale prices, and adopting a time-varying fractional cointegration analysis...

The Chinese government began to implement an increasing block tariff (IBT) nationwide in the residential sector in July 2012. Although there have been a number of studies on the impacts of an IBT, knowledge about IBT design is still limited, particularly how to determine the electricity volume for the first block of an IBT scheme, which is intended to protect those households with low levels of...