Time-of-use (ToU) pricing is widely used by the electricity utility to shave peak load. Such a scheme provides users with incentives invest in behind-the-meter energy storage and shift load towards low-price intervals. However, without considering implication on investment, an improperly designed ToU may lead significant welfare loss, especially when over-invest storage, which leads new consump...

Based on panel data of 214 licenses to construct small hydropower plants, we examine whether uncertainty with respect to the introduction of a market for renewable energy certificates affected the timing of investments in Norway from 2001 to 2010. Using regression analysis, we find that (1) investors owning a portfolio of licenses acted in accordance with a real options investment rule, and unc...

I examine whether electricity prices influence the likelihood that consumers purchase high efficiency appliances by using state-year panel data on electricity prices and the proportion of sales of new appliances that involve high efficiency “Energy Star” models. I find no evidence that electricity prices affect the propensity for consumers to choose high efficiency appliances. Point estimates a...

The difficulty of balance between environment and energy consumption makes countries enterprises face a dilemma, improving efficiency has become one the ways to solve this dilemma. Based on data 158 from 1980 2018, dynamic TFP different is calculated by means Super-SBM-GML model. decomposed into indexes EC (Technical Efficiency Change), TC (Technological Change) been extended PEC (Pure SEC (Sca...