Electricity prices and industrial competitiveness: A case study of final assembly automobile manufacturing in the United States and Canada

The Impact of Electricity Price on Power-Generation Structure: Evidence From China

“…In addition, the conclusions of recent studies have provided evidence for the rationality of differential electricity pricing (DEP), under which policy firms are compelled to accelerate equipment upgrades, and energyintensive industries are stimulated to make technological improvement (Yang et al, 2021;Zheng et al, 2021). This is consistent with the findings of positive relationship between a raise of electricity price and a boost in industrial competitiveness or total factor productivity (TFP) (Mordue, 2017;Elliott et al, 2019;Ai et al, 2020). Moreover, the electricity price is found to have a long influence on renewable energy (RE) innovation (Lin and Chen, 2019).…”