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Étiqueté : Electricity demand

Articles de recherche, working papers, rapports, thèses / Energie

Electricity Demand and Basic Needs: Empirical Evidence from China’s Households

An increasing block tariff (IBT) has been implemented nationwide in the residential sector in China since July 2012 as part of a process towards liberalizing electricity prices. However, knowledge about IBT design is still limited, particularly how to determine the electricity volume for the first block of an IBT scheme. Assuming the first block should be set based on some measure of electricity poverty, we attempt to model household electricity demand such that the range of basic needs can be established.

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The Behavioral Response to Voluntary Provision of an Environmental Public Good

Jacobsen, G.D., M.J. Kotchen, M.P. Vandenbergh (2010). The Behavioral Response to Voluntary Provision of an Environmental Public Good: Evidence from Residential Electricity Demand. NBER Working Paper No. 16608, Dec 2010.
This paper develops a theory of voluntary provision of a public good in which a household’s decision to engage in a form of environmentally friendly behavior is based on the desire to offset another behavior that is environmentally harmful…