Households' willingness to pay for overhead-to-underground conversion of electricity distribution networks

McNair, Ben; Bennett, Jeffrey; Hensher, David A.; Rose, John M.

doi:10.1016/j.enpol.2011.02.023

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“…McNair et al [7] investigated households' WTP for the conversion of electricity distribution networks from overhead to underground which was more reliable in Canberra, Australia and concluded that the value that households place on underground electricity networks was a conservative average of at least A$6838 per property.…”

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Willingness to Pay for Improved Electricity Supply in Ghana

Twerefou¹

2014

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One major problem facing Ghana is the unreliable supply of electricity. Unreliable electricity supply largely attributed to supply side constraints such as poor energy infrastructure, low tariffs which is below cost recovery and increasing demand has made it difficult to provide uninterrupted supply for the populace. Currently, there is a constant outcry by Ghanaians for the government and service providers to improve electricity service delivery due to the fact that households do suffer economic losses in the event of unannounced power outages to the point that many of them may be willing to pay higher tariffs if that will ensure improved service delivery. In this study we assess households' willingness to pay (WTP) for improved electricity supply as well as the factors that influence WTP through a contingent valuation survey. Results from our analysis indicated that, households in Ghana are prepared to pay on the average about ȼ0.2734 for a kilowatt-hour which is about one and a half times more than what they are paying currently. An econometric analysis of the factors that influence households' WTP for improved electricity supply indicates that household income, sex, household size, secondary and tertiary level education are the significant factors.

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Willingness to Pay for Improved Electricity Supply in Ghana

Twerefou¹

2014

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“…Therefore, an increasing share of onshore wind power in future is also likely to result in increasing externalities. Additionally, increasing electricity production from renewables both on-and offshore requires new transmission lines, also causing new externalities (e.g., Navrud et al, 2008;McNair et al, 2011). Thus, land use conflicts are likely to increase, especially in densely populated countries such as Germany and knowledge of the extent of the externalities can help to mitigate or even solve these conflicts.…”

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Heterogeneous preferences toward landscape externalities of wind turbines – combining choices and attitudes in a hybrid model

Mariel

Meyerhoff

Hess

2015

Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews

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“…The main objective of the survey was to establish homeowners' willingness to pay to have overhead electricity and telecommunications wires in their suburb replaced by new underground wires. We provide a brief overview herein and refer readers to McNair et al (2011b) for details.…”

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Modelling Heterogeneity in Response Behaviour Towards a Sequence of Discrete Choice Questions: A Probabilistic Decision Process Model

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Hensher

Bennett

2011

Environ Resource Econ

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There is a growing body of evidence in the non-market valuation literature suggesting that responses to a sequence of discrete choice questions tend to violate the assumptions typically made by analysts regarding independence of responses and stability of preferences. Decision processes (or heuristics) such as value learning and strategic misrepresentation have been offered as explanations for these results. While a few studies have tested these heuristics as competing hypotheses, none has investigated the possibility that each explains the response behaviour of a subgroup of the population. In this paper, we make a contribution towards addressing this research gap by presenting a probabilistic decision process model designed to estimate the proportion of respondents employing defined heuristics. We demonstrate the model on binary and multinomial choice data sources and find three distinct types of response behaviour. The results suggest that accounting for heterogeneity in response behaviour may be a better way forward than attempting to identify a single heuristic to explain the behaviour of all respondents.

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Households' willingness to pay for overhead-to-underground conversion of electricity distribution networks

Cited by 22 publications

References 14 publications

Willingness to Pay for Improved Electricity Supply in Ghana

Willingness to Pay for Improved Electricity Supply in Ghana

Heterogeneous preferences toward landscape externalities of wind turbines – combining choices and attitudes in a hybrid model

Modelling Heterogeneity in Response Behaviour Towards a Sequence of Discrete Choice Questions: A Probabilistic Decision Process Model

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