Demand response is getting increased attention these days due to the increase in electricity demand and introduction of renewable resources in the existing power grid. Traditionally demand response programs involve large industrial consumers but with technological advancement, demand response is being implemented for small residential and commercial consumers also. In this paper, demand respons...

This article presents the results of the first large-scale mail survey of non-residential green power customers in the United States. The survey explored the motivations, attitudes, and experiences of 464 business, non-profit, and public-sector customers that have voluntarily opted to purchaseFand frequently pay a premium forFrenewable electricity. Particular attention in this article is paid t...

An accurate prediction of prospective construction supply and demand, especially the private residential market, is paramount important to policy makers, as it could help formulate strategies to cultivate/stabilize the economy and satisfy the social needs (at macro level). Despite that, a realistic prediction of future private residential demand is never an easy task, as it is governed by a num...

Re-engineering technological strategies in teaching and learning in an open distance learning (ODL) environment is paramount as the demand for access to quality higher education escalates drastically on a year to year basis. The organisational framework requires change in order to accommodate the increasing number of students. In view of the changing higher education landscape and the increase ...

Many studies stress the needs of interdependence analysis under the special conditions of multidisciplinary systems that include social systems. This applies, in particular, to scenarios on future energy demand and supply. Using the example of the residential sector in Germany we provide information on factors and their possible outcomes taking multidisciplinary aspects into account. In additio...

This paper shows that goal setting can act as an effective mechanism to induce energy efficiency and conservation actions in the residential sector. We evaluate a large-scale implementation of an energy efficiency program in Northern Illinois and conclude that, on average, households saved approximately 3%. However, savings are heterogeneous, and consumers choosing realistic goals save substant...

this study estimates the residential property prices in tehran using hedonic price functions and spatial econometrics. the newly employed method is extending the analysis to the neighbourhood level (361 sectors) using the city's planning and gis tools. the results show that the spatial econometric model has higher identification than the simple econometric model. the distance between the c...

A methodology is presented for modeling load shapes in the residential sector by using hourly whole-house metered data and temperature. Individual household-level load data are analyzed to achieve data smoothing (noise rejection) and comprcssiOn (in the ratio of approximately WA), and to disaggregate the weatherdependent and weather-independent components of the load. The weather-independent (l...

Medicaid data for California, Georgia, Michigan, and Tennessee were used to analyze changes in fee and non-fee policies on physicians' service provision to children, before and after the enactment of the Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1989 (OBRA-1989). Only Michigan raised Medicaid preventive fees relative to the private sector. Higher relative fees increased child caseloads of participat...

We examine the links between residential choice, human capital investment, and production, in a city composed of several communities where the acquisition of different skills is subject to peer goup effects. The equilibrium involves maximal self-segregation by occupation, whereas Pareto efficiency may require identical communities. The inefficiency can even cause entire "ghettos" to drop out of...