We study the electricity consumption of San Diego-area households following a series of price changes and related … conservation program had significant, but transitory, effects. Further, a large share of households reduced electricity consumption …

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 …

This paper presents estimates of the customer-level demand for electricity by industrial and commercial customers … purchasing electricity according to the half-hourly energy prices from the England and Wales (E&W) electricity market. These … customers also face the possibility of a demand charge on their electricity consumption during the three half-hour periods that …

We measure the pass-through of emissions costs to electricity prices and explore its determinants. We perform both … general pass-through literature, we find that emissions costs are almost fully passed-through to electricity prices. Since … electricity is traded through high-frequency auctions for highly inelastic demand, firms have weak incentives to adjust markups …

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 … and Texas. In the upper Midwest, however, charging during the recommended hours at night implies that PEVs generate more …

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

. Electricity distribution is the canonical example of a natural monopoly. Randomized price offers show that demand for electricity …

Recent efforts to restructure and partially deregulate electricity markets have renewed interest in understanding how … household electricity demand that addresses these difficulties. We estimate the model using data for a representative sample of … California households, and summarize how electricity demand elasticities vary in that state. We then use the model to analyze the …

Policies supporting investment in renewable electricity have been a cornerstone of climate policy in many parts of the … renewable expansions. Focusing on the California electricity market, we estimate how wholesale electricity prices have responded …

We develop a large customer-level database to study electricity pricing to U.S. manufacturing plants from 1963 to 2000 … for a standard Ramsey-pricing interpretation of quantity discounts. Spatial dispersion in retail electricity prices among …