Electricity inequality in Canada: Should pricing reforms eliminate subsidies to encourage efficient usage?

Mirnezami, Seyed Reza

doi:10.1016/j.jup.2014.08.001

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“…This information proxied by the logrgdp variable. It indicates that all the variables give a similar result, which means that the firm chooses to use the electricity from the grid if the income of the region of establishment is better, the same to Mirnezami (2014). It also indicates that the size of the economy in the location firms gives a probability of changing their source of electricity.…”

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confidence: 95%

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Indonesian’s Industrial Decission on Self-Generated Electricity

Grahito¹

2021

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This study analyzes the factors that determine firms' decisions on self-generated electricity in Indonesia. Specifically, I explore the difference in industries' decisions making across Indonesian five major islands in the past ten years. The empirical investigation utilizes Indonesian's Large and Medium Firm dataset of the years 2004, 2009, and 2014 from Indonesian Statistics. The empirical results show that an industry with higher output, higher income, and less labor is positively associated with the probability of having a self-generated electricity. Moreover, for firms that located in Kalimantan and Papua/Nusa Tenggara/Maluku island, they have a higher probability (24.7% and 19.8%, in comparison with Jawa/Bali island) of the self-generated electricity. The industry that plays in agriculture sector is also more likely to self-generate electricity. The year effect on the study indicates that in 2009 the industries reduce the usage of self-generated electricity. All of these findings are robust across different model specifications.

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“…Another topic in electricity inequality in household size explained by Mirnezami (2014). Based on the data, inequality occurs among households with different income or economy class.…”

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Indonesian’s Industrial Decission on Self-Generated Electricity

Grahito¹

2021

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“…Most past empirical evaluations of cross-subsidies in electricity sectors similar to the Colombian utility sector have addressed affordability and the accuracy of targeting the poor, given the subsidy. For example, Mirnezami [13] used data from Canadian families to compare the consumption level with and without a subsidy. Gómez-Lobo and Contreras [14] used relative concentration curves to show that the Colombian geographical target scheme is less able to identify poor people than the means-tested scheme.…”

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Cross-Subsidies and Government Transfers: Impacts on Electricity Service Quality in Colombia

Wang

2018

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An affordable and reliable supply of electricity service is essential to encourage sustainable social development in developing countries. Colombia uses cross-subsidies to prompt electricity usage for poor households. This raises the issue of whether charging lower prices to poor households, while boosting their consumption, induces utilities to lower the quality of service received by them. This paper uses unique databases and examines how underfunded cross-subsidies affect perceived electricity service quality across consumer groups. Results indicate that when facing financial deficits, utilities provide lower perceived service quality to subsidized consumers than to residents paying surcharges. The difference in perceived quality across consumer groups is reduced by an increase in the amount of (external) government transfers. To prompt electricity consumption by the poor, the Colombian government should fund subsidies, strengthen quality regulation, and increase the transparency and reliability of government transfers.

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“…Canadian power generation companies have been facing significant challenges due to the cumulative effects of several federal, provincial, and territorial regulations, which have affected their ability to operate efficiently and make optimal decisions about power generation (Mirnezami 2014). The efficiency of the power generation companies has been further affected by the changing and uncertain electricity demand and supply conditions over the economic cycles (Qudrat-Ullah 2013).…”

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An Assessment of the Efficiency of Canadian Power Generation Companies with Bootstrap DEA

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Zéphyr

2021

JRFM

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Power generation companies play an important role in the Canadian economy, as most of the economic activities in the manufacturing and service sectors are powered by electricity. The significance of the Canadian power generation industry shows that efficiency analysis is essential for efficiently managing power generation and distribution in Canada. However, there have been few attempts to study the relative efficiencies of the Canadian power generation companies. This study fills in this gap by assessing the overall technical, managerial, and scale efficiencies of a sample of Canadian power generation companies via the non-parametric bootstrap DEA methodology, with firm-level annual inputs and outputs data over an 18-year horizon. The results of our investigation indicate low levels of overall technical and managerial efficiencies but relatively high levels of scale efficiencies of the Canadian power generation companies over the entire study period. We also found that the 2007–2009 financial crisis impacted the relative performance of the Canadian power generation companies. Our results also allowed us to identify the benchmark power generation companies for each type of efficiency that the inefficient companies should target toward improving their efficiency.

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Electricity inequality in Canada: Should pricing reforms eliminate subsidies to encourage efficient usage?

Cited by 20 publications

References 25 publications

Indonesian’s Industrial Decission on Self-Generated Electricity

Indonesian’s Industrial Decission on Self-Generated Electricity

Cross-Subsidies and Government Transfers: Impacts on Electricity Service Quality in Colombia

An Assessment of the Efficiency of Canadian Power Generation Companies with Bootstrap DEA

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