The widespread rollout of air conditioning has resulted in massive positive impacts on human health in both developing and developed countries over the past century. A warming world will further increase demand for cooling in climates both through increased operation of existing air conditioners and the adoption of new ones. This paper provides an empirical approach to separately quantifying th...

Microgeneration using solar photovoltaic (PV) systems is one of the fastest growing applications of solar energy in the United States. Its success has been partly fueled by the availability of net metering by electric utilities. However, with increasing solar PV penetration, the availability of net metering is likely to be capped. Households would then need to rely on distributed storage to cap...

The policy of net-metering allows the operators of residentialand commercial solar PV systems to sell surplus electricity back to their utility at the going retail rate. This policy has recently been criticized on the grounds that it provides a subsidy for solar installations, a subsidy that is paid for by all ratepayers. In response, public utility commissions have begun to take up this regula...

Home Energy Management (HEM) describes a class of technologies including sensors, smart thermostats, and feedback devices seeking to manage residential energy consumption profiles to reduce peak electric demand and consumers’ electric bills. A growing number of HEM products and companies have emerged over the past decade, ranging from basic energy displays to whole-home control systems and smar...

Access to smart meter data in the United States presents an opportunity to better understand residential energy consumption and energy-related behaviors. Air-conditioning (A/C) use, in particular, is a highly variable and significant contributor to residential energy demand. Most current building simulation software tools require intricate detail and training to accurately model A/C use within ...

Abstract An increasing number of households installing solar panels and consuming the energy thus produced raises two challenges for regulators: network financing vertical equity. We propose alternative tariff subsidy designs policymakers to incentivize panel adoptions guarantee that costs are recovered, while trading off efficiency, equity, welfare motives. estimate a structural model demand a...

This study aimed to examine the customer interest in using rooftop PV considering economic background and profile Indonesia’s electricity market primary survey data with potential existing (households industries) respondents. research uses logit model regression analyze impact of demographic respondents exploratory factor analysis (EFA) understand reasons why users utilize at their homes. The r...