Most US consumers are charged a near-constant retail price for electricity, despite substantial hourly variation in the wholesale market price. This paper evaluates the …rst program to expose residential consumers to hourly real-time pricing (RTP). I …nd that enrolled households are statistically signi…cantly price elastic and that consumers responded by conserving energy during peak hours, but...

Germany’s energy transition has been accompanied by a near doubling of power prices for private households since the outset of the new millennium. Millions of poor households and those that are close to the poverty threshold are likely to suff er from these increases in electricity cost. Focusing on low-income households, this paper illustrates the distributional implications of Germany’s energ...

Total energy consumption of video game consoles has grown rapidly in the past few decades due to rapid increases in market penetration, power consumption of the devices, and increasing usage driven by new capabilities. Unfortunately, studies investigating the energy impacts of these devices have been limited and potential responses, such as ENERGY STAR requirements, have been difficult to defin...

To understand how specific interventions affect a process observed over time, we need to control for the other factors that influence outcomes. Such a model that captures all factors other than the one of interest is generally known as a baseline. In our study of how different pricing schemes affect residential electricity consumption, the baseline would need to capture the impact of outdoor te...

Understanding how consumers respond to electricity prices is essential for predicting the effects of climate change policy and other policies that target electricity markets. To date, studies of long-run electricity demand have relied on price changes that are transient or endogenous, and none have utilized experimental or quasi-experimental variation. We study the dynamics of residential elect...

Challenge Definition Although citizens of developed nations have come to take electricity and clean lighting for granted, according to the International Energy Agency (IEA), nearly two billion people lack access to electricity. As of the year 2000, the IEA estimates that 14% of urban households and 49% of rural households in developing nations are without electricity [1]. In addition, many of t...

University of Education, Winneba. College of Technology Education, Department of Accounting Studies Education, Kumasi, Ghana. _______________________________________________________________________________________ Abstract This paper uses the external survey assessment techniques of the Probit model to examine the problem facing non-residential students of the College of Technology Education, U...

Real-time household-level feedback has the potential to improve the efficiency of electricity consumption. This feedback allows a household to obtain a better understanding of the relationship between different electricity consuming actions and changes in its monthly electricity bill, which should improve the household’s ability to assess the costs and benefits of each additional electricity co...

The paper presents a method for the evaluation of the reductions in the technical and non-technical distribution losses in case of the mass use of compact fluorescent lamps (CFLs) in buildings in Serbia. The evaluationwas based on an assumption that the twomost used incandescent lamps in each of the 25–50% of the total number of dwellings in Serbia will be replaced with adequate CFLs, and that ...