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We examine heterogeneity in Norwegian households' price responses to critical peak pricing (CPP) on electricity consumption, using a large-scale randomized controlled trial (RCT), high-frequency electricity data, and default enrollment. Increasing the grid transmission charge by 4,067%...
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How do private consumers adapt to changes to energy prices, in particular do they invest in energy-saving measures? We … study this question in the context of the rapid rise in energy prices caused by the Russian invasion of Ukraine in February … 2022 and the demand for energy efficiency in the UK housing market. We find that the housing market barely reacted to a 60 …
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in a large-scale field experiment that cross-randomizes energy efficiency subsidies with information about the financial … ambiguous and highly dependent on the information design. Informing consumers that an LED saves 90% in annual energy costs …
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Using an open-ended contingent valuation survey, we analyze how (i) experience of a power outage due to one of the worst storms ever to hit Sweden and (ii) a cheap talk script affect respondents' WTP to avoid power outages. Experience significantly increases and a cheap talk script decreases the...
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investment in information and communication technology (ICT) and energy use, influence productivity levels. A dynamic factor … output from current production. In particular, we investigate how the ICT–energy relationship affects total factor … investment are substitutes for labor and energy use. We also find a high output growth rate in the sampled sectors, and …
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exceeds the benchmark of what the UN considers as modern energy. We find significant effects on households' budget …
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It is widely accepted that the costs of under-pricing energy are large, whether in advanced or developing countries …. This paper explores how large these costs can be by focussing on the size of the external effects that energy subsidies in … (agriculture). Our focus is mainly on the costs associated with congestion and pollution as well the impact of under-priced energy …
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Our research investigates the magnitude of the effect of residential energy efficiency audit programs on later … household electricity consumption. These programs are designed to increase awareness of household energy consumption with …
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mortality peaks in winter, and a higher heating price increases exposure to cold by reducing heating use. It also raises energy … variation in the energy source used for home heating and temporal variation in the national prices of natural gas versus …
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energy consumption, which caused an increase in mortality during very cold temperatures. We estimate that the increase in …
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