The death and life of retail electricity

Going viral: The impacts of covid19 on retail electricity

“…In this article we follow up the arguments made in our recent article “death and life” ( Houldin and Yang, 2020 ) and also by Lo et al (2019) , in light of how the world of life and work is changing because of the covid19 worldwide pandemic. The thrust of these articles was to question the traditional methods of billing and paying for electricity and to suggest that the model for the future is that of providers of other services such as internet and cellphone services based “subscriptions” for electricity services.…”

Electricity as a service and local control: Responding to a post-Covid world

“…Our first TEJ paper talks about the death and life of retail electricity ( Houldin and Yang, 2020a ). The death of retail electricity is the death of the creation of a new property right.…”