the estimation of residential demand for electricity: a case study of isfahan province

in this paper, the residential demand for electricity equation is specified and then this equation is estimated using a pooling data for period 1983-90. the results of study for different regions of province show that the demand is less elastic with respect to average price of electricity and residential area, .but it is more elastic with respect to income and average number of households. these results are similar to the regional studies ofother researchers in different countries, with one exception that the response of demand with respect to average.number of households is too high in isfahan province