Consumption of energy is influenced by a multitude of factors. Beyond factors determining the demand for a specific energy service, characteristics of and attitudes to the energy product delivering the service can also strongly affect this demand. Attributes of electricity which may influence the demand for electricity services include its cost, its environmental impacts, and the social/politic...

This paper presents a local electricity trading market that allows users to trade excess electricity among themselves in a decentralised and privacy-preserving manner. Users who have more electricity generated by their renewable energy sources than they need for themselves, can sell this electricity to other users using a bidding mechanism based on secure multiparty computations. Based on the b...

In the new competitive order, Australian electricity systems have been oriented to growth of electricity sales based on low margins and the capture of market share. Electricity is a premium fuel. The second law of thermodynamics testifies to this, as does the relationship between coal-fired electricity and the negative externality of greenhouse warming. Electricity prices should reflect its sta...

The energy use increases rapidly due to growth in population, urbanization, and economic growth. Residential electricity consumption has an important place in the rapidly growing electricity consumption in India. Most of the studies that are carried out for energy planning in India, use macrolevel data for the estimation of price and income elasticities of electricity demand. The present study ...

Woody feedstocks will play a critical role in meeting the demand for biomass-based energy products in the US. We developed an integrated model using comparable system boundaries and common set of assumptions to ascertain unit cost and greenhouse gas (GHG) intensity of electricity and ethanol derived from slash pine (Pinus elliottii) at the production and consumption levels by considering existi...

Sustaining rapid economic growth and satisfying increasing energy demand while limiting greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions is a central challenge in India. Proposed policy solutions should be evaluated according to their impacts on the energy system and the economy to identify efficient policies. I have developed an energy-economic model for India that provides a comprehensive foundation for analyz...

abstract in this study, we applied recently developed panel unit root and cointegration techniques to examine the long-run real income per capita and price elasticities for demand of electricity in selected middle east and north african (mena) countries using an annual data series from 1990 to 2011.our main finding from the panel analysis is that the demand for electricity is highly price elast...

Average Winter electricity consumption for rural residents in Utah is significantly greater than for those living in urban areas. Based on data from a 1980 survey of Utah residents, this rural-urban consumption differential was investigated using multiple regression analysis. It was determined that the stock of electricity-using devices, climate, and demographic characteristics were the most im...

This paper introduces grid-connected PV system to provide electricity for loads fractions of the governmental building in "Qena Al-Gadida" through two plans with different prices of electricity according to consumption rates. The first plan assuming the price of electricity purchased from the grid is equal to the price paid by the utility for electricity sold to the grid (sellback price). The s...