This thesis is composed of three essays on the residential electricity demand and its efficient use. In order to design and implement effective energy policy measures it is important for policy makers and utilities to have information on the response of consumers to an increase in electricity...

This paper presents an empirical analysis on residential demand for electricity. This analysis has been performed using aggregate panel data at the province level for 47 Spanish provinces for the period from 2000 to 2008. For this purpose, we estimated a log–log demand equation for electricity...

Two elements of the Swiss market for electricity are examined in this book: the residential electricity demand by time-of-use and the cost structure of municipal electricity distribution utilities. The empirical results indicate that demand for peak and off-peak electricity in elastic, and that...