TY  - JOUR
AU  - Reiss,Peter C.
AU  - White,Matthew W.
TI  - Household Electricity Demand, Revisited
JF  - National Bureau of Economic Research Working Paper Series
VL  - No. 8687
PY  - 2001
Y2  - December 2001
UR  - http://www.nber.org/papers/w8687
L1  - http://www.nber.org/papers/w8687.pdf
N1  - Author contact info:
Peter C. Reiss
Graduate School of Business
Stanford University
Stanford, CA 94305-5015
Tel: 650/725-2759
Fax: 650/725-7979
E-Mail: preiss@leland.stanford.edu

Matthew White
ISO New England
One Sullivan Drive
Holyoke, MA 01040
E-Mail: matthew.white.phd@gmail.com
AB  - Recent efforts to restructure and partially deregulate electricity markets have renewed interest in understanding how consumers respond to price changes. Several interrelated problems complicate demand analyses of these markets, including nonlinear pricing, heterogeneity in households' price sensitivities, and data aggregation. This paper formulates a model of household electricity demand that addresses these difficulties. We estimate the model using data for a representative sample of California households, and summarize how electricity demand elasticities vary in that state. We then use the model to analyze the electricity consumption and expenditure effects of recent tariff structure changes in California.
ER  -