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Contracting Matters: Hedging Producers and Consumers with a Renewable Energy Pool
Social Science Research NetworkRenewable energy installations are rapidly gaining market share due to falling technology costs and supportive policies. Meanwhile, the energy price crisis in 2022 shifted the energy policy debate toward the question of how consumers can better benefit ...
K. Neuhoff +3 more
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Electricity and Firm Productivity: A General-Equilibrium Approach
Social Science Research Network, 2020 Many policymakers view power outages as a major constraint on firm productivity in developing countries. Yet empirical studies find modest short-run effects of outages on firm performance. This paper builds a dynamic macroeconomic model to study the long-
Stephie Fried, David Lagakos
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Which Households Respond to Electricity Peak Pricing Amid High Levels of Electrification?
Social Science Research Network, 2022 IZA DP No. 15194 MARCH 2022 Which Households Respond to Electricity Peak Pricing amid High Levels of Electrification?* We examine heterogeneity in Norwegian households’ price responses to critical peak pricing (CPP) on electricity consumption, using a ...
Cloé Garnache +2 more
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Real-Time Pricing and the Cost of Clean Power
American Economic Journal: Economic PolicySolar and wind power are now cheaper than fossil fuels but are intermittent. The extra supply-side variability implies growing benefits of using real-time retail pricing (RTP).
Imelda +2 more
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Charging Ahead: Prepaid Metering, Electricity Use, and Utility Revenue
American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, 2020 Monthly bills for services such as electricity often go unpaid in developing countries. Prepaid meters offer a potential technological solution. In Cape Town, South Africa, over 4,000 residential customers on monthly billing were switched to prepaid ...
K. Jack, Grant Smith
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Environmental Accounting for Pollution in the United States Economy
, 2011 This study presents a framework to include environmental externalities into a system of national accounts. The paper estimates the air pollution damages for each industry in the United States.
Nicholas Z. Muller +2 more
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The Electric Vehicle Transition and the Economics of Banning Gasoline Vehicles
American Economic Journal: Economic Policy, 2020 Electric vehicles have a unique potential to transform personal transportation. We analyze this transition with a dynamic model capturing falling costs of electric vehicles, decreasing pollution from electricity, and increasing vehicle substitutability ...
S. Holland, E. Mansur, Andrew Yates
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Estimating the Target-Consistent Carbon Price for Electricity
Energy JournalThe target-consistent price of carbon for an electricity sector decarbonizing through massive variable renewable electricity (VRE) depends sensitively on the VRE penetration level, as the marginal curtailment of VRE rises rapidly beyond a certain level ...
David Newbery
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The Long-Run Dynamics of Electricity Demand: Evidence From Municipal Aggregation
American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, 2017 We study the dynamics of residential electricity demand by exploiting a natural experiment that produced large and long-lasting price changes in over 250 Illinois communities.
T. Deryugina, Alexander Mackay, J. Reif
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Energy JournalThe paper uses a social cost benefit analysis (SCBA) approach to measure the effects of the power system reform starting from 2015 in Jiangsu province, China.
Tianyu Li +4 more
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