Today more than 2.7 billion people rely on biomass as their primary cooking fuel, with profound implications for the environment and people’s well-being. Wood provision is often time-consuming and the emitted smoke has severe health eff ects – both burdens that affl ict women in particular. The dissemination of Improved Cooking Stoves (ICS) is frequently considered an eff ective remedy for thes...

Dynamic partial adjustment models of residential electricity demand account for the fact that households may not adjust electricity consumption immediately in response to changes in prices, income, and other relevant factors, because of behavioral habits or adjustment costs for the capital stock of appliances. However, forward-looking behavior is generally neglected. Expectations about future p...

US shale gas production is generally expected to continue its fast rise. However, a cautious evaluation is needed. Shale gas resource estimates are potentially overoptimistic and it is uncertain to which extent they can be produced economically. Moreover, the adverse environmental effects of ever more wells to be drilled may lead to a fall in public acceptance and a strengthening of regulation....

I show that provision of electricity meters leads to a large reduction in electricity consumption over the first four months following meter installation. This is consistent with previous overconsumption by unmetered users facing a zero marginal price. However, it also reflects underconsumption by metered customers paying a marginal price exceeding marginal cost. I quantify these welfare effect...

abstract in this study, we applied recently developed panel unit root and cointegration techniques to examine the long-run real income per capita and price elasticities for demand of electricity in selected middle east and north african (mena) countries using an annual data series from 1990 to 2011.our main finding from the panel analysis is that the demand for electricity is highly price elast...

this paper focuses on the residential sector demand for electricity, natural gas and petroleum products (kerosene, gas oil and lpg) in iran in the context of a popular locally flexible functional forms - “the almost ideal demand system (aids)”. we pay explicit attention to the theoretical regularity conditions of positivity, monotonicity, and curvature. we treat the curvature property as a main...

The recent auction of firm energy and the decisions on medium-term coverage give rise to risks in supply electricity Colombia coming periods. Taking into account possible that may arise, such as: non-compliance with FEO due generation units (six (6) non-compliances during 2015-2016 term), delay projects committed (Hidroituango case) availability market, imply a systemic risk for electric power ...

Costs of transport fuels are the most significant components household expenditures, and price petrol is particular importance for commercial residential sectors in Australia. Regarding central role petrol, an in-depth understanding behaviours essential. Previous studies mostly focused on markets metropolitan areas, there exists a gap regional literature. Therefore, this paper aimed to develop ...