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strategy could significantly reduce the cost of increasing the share of greenhouse gas free wind and solar electricity … production in an electricity supply industry …
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electricity consumption …
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Electricity is a general purpose technology and the catalyst for the second industrial revolution. Developing countries … with the length of higher-voltage electricity lines. Instrumenting for electrification using hydroelectric potential, we …
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I calculate the cost of replacing all power stations in the U.S. using coal and gas by wind and solar power stations by 2050, leaving electric power generation in the U.S. carbon free. Allowing for the savings in the cost of fossil fuel arising from the replacement of fossil fuel plants this is...
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Water use and electricity use, which generate negative environmental externalities, are susceptible to a second … other household members. If individual usage is imperfectly observed (as is typical for water and electricity) and family …
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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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The standard approach to recovering the cost of electricity provision is to bill customers monthly for past consumption …. A possible solution to this problem is prepaid metering, in which customers buy electricity upfront and use it until the … prepaid amount is consumed. We use data from Cape Town, South Africa to examine the effects of prepaid electricity metering on …
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residential electricity market, we document evidence of consumer inertia. We estimate an econometric model of retail choice to …
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There is limited evidence of behavioral changes resulting from electricity information feedback. Using a randomized …-home devices, which provide near-real-time plug-level information. We find a 12–23% decrease in electricity use for treatment … overall electricity use is similar among treatment apartments which received Modlets and those which declined Modlets, and …
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to answering that question. First, I compare current electricity use by California homes of different vintages … electricity in California homes varies with outdoor temperatures for buildings of different vintages. And third, I compare … electricity use for buildings of different vintages in California, which has stringent building energy codes, to electricity use …
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