strategy could significantly reduce the cost of increasing the share of greenhouse gas free wind and solar electricity … production in an electricity supply industry …

electricity consumption …

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 …

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 …

critical peak pricing intervention reduces electricity consumption by 14%. Using unique high frequency appliance-level data, we …

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 …

residential electricity market, we document evidence of consumer inertia. We estimate an econometric model of retail choice to …

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 …

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 …