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We study the dynamics of residential electricity demand by exploiting a natural experiment that produced large and long …
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electricity consumption …
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critical peak pricing intervention reduces electricity consumption by 14%. Using unique high frequency appliance-level data, we …
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This paper documents an increase in residential electricity consumption while industrial and commercial consumption has … decline in industrial electricity consumption, but left residential usage unaffected. The increase in residential consumption … of 2020, total excess expenditure on residential electricity was nearly $6B …
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We examine the bidding behavior of firms competing on ERCOT, the hourly electricity balancing market in Texas. We …
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We use detailed microeconomic data to investigate why aggregate residential electricity consumption in California has … determining electricity demand. We show that building codes have been effective for homes built after 1983. We find that houses … electricity at the time of construction was low. Employing our regression estimates, we construct an aggregate residential …
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We document three remarkable features of the Opower program, in which social comparison- based home energy reports are repeatedly mailed to more than six million households nationwide. First, initial reports cause high-frequency "action and backsliding," but these cycles attenuate over time....
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In this paper, we develop a methodology for estimating marginal emissions of electricity demand that vary by location … electricity markets and shifting load profiles throughout the day. Using data available for 2007 through 2009, with a focus on … electricity load management and environmental goals: the hours when electricity is the least expensive to produce tend to be the …
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building stock's total electricity consumption. This paper exploits a unique panel of commercial buildings to investigate the … impact of building vintage, contract incentives, and human capital on electricity consumption across commercial structures …. We document that electricity consumption and building quality are complements, not substitutes. Technological progress …
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) and energy efficiency (EE) investments. We specify a model that relates electricity demand to previous EE DSM spending … expenditures reduce electricity demand and that this effect persists for a number of years. Our findings suggest that ratepayer … funded DSM expenditures between 1992 and 2006 produced a central estimate of 0.9 percent savings in electricity consumption …
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