The Demand for Electricity: A Cross‐section Study of New South Wales and the Australian Capital Territory*

Hawkins, Robert G.

doi:10.1111/j.1475-4932.1975.tb00219.x

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“…However, Baxter and Rees (1968) conclude that industrial electricity demand is relatively unresponsive to substitute fuel prices. Hawkins (1975) also finds that commercial and industrial demand for electricity is insensitive to substitute price changes in New South Wales, Australia. De Vita et al (2006) discovers that diesel and kerosene substitute prices are insignificant because of the limited ability to switch between grid electricity and auto-generators in Namibia.…”

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“…Most analyses report negative own-price coefficients, with electricity consumption decreasing as price increases in the short-run and in the long-run (Mount et al, 1973;Murray et al, 1978;Chung and Aigner, 1981;Fatai et al, 2003;De Vita et al, 2006;Polemis, 2007;Madlener et al, 2011;Cebula, 2013;Lim et al, 2014;Kohler, 2014). Conversely, results of some studies suggest that commercial and industrial electricity demands are unresponsive to price changes in the long-run and/or the shortrun (Baxter and Rees, 1968;Hawkins, 1975, Amusa et al, 2009. Commercial sector electricity consumption has also been found to be unresponsive to short-run prices changes, but extremely price elastic in the long-run (Eltony and Hajeeh, 1999;Zachariadis and Pashourtidou, 2007).…”

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“…Most prior research indicates that commercial and industrial electricity usage increases as income, output, value-added, or economic activity increase (Houthakker, 1951;Baxter and Rees, 1968;Hawkins, 1975;Taylor, 1975;Polemis, 2007;Madlener et al, 2011;Cebula, 2013;Lim et al, 2014;Bildirici and Kayikci, 2016). Long-run elasticities are also larger, in absolute magnitude, than short-run elasticities.…”

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Metropolitan Evidence Regarding Small Commercial and Industrial Electricity Consumption

Allen¹,

Fullerton

2019

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Small commercial and industrial (CIS) electricity demand is an important category of electric energy consumption. Historically, it has received substantially less research attention than residential usage, potentially due to data constraints. This study seeks to partially fill that gap in the energy economics literature by employing a fairly unique data set for the El Paso, Texas, USA metropolitan economy that includes private capital stock estimates from 1978 through 2017. The empirical model is specified using a recently developed analytical framework based on duality theory and a derived input demand function. Parameter estimation is completed using an Autoregressive-distributed lag model and an error correction model. In the long-run, CIS customers in El Paso respond only to own-price and the quantity of capital stock per capita. In the short-run, CIS customers adjust their electricity usage in response to changes in all variables except for the price of electricity. The most unexpected result from this analysis is a short-run income elasticity of −0.32, indicating that CIS electricity usage decreases with economic expansion in El Paso, Texas.

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Metropolitan Evidence Regarding Small Commercial and Industrial Electricity Consumption

Allen¹,

Fullerton

2019

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“…These are two common arguments for cross-subsidisation: decentralisation and income redistribution. A number of studies of domestic electricity consumption underscore the importance of income in determining electricity consumption, with the higher income consumers using more electricity than those with lower income (for example, Newman & Day 1975, Hawkins 1975, Fisher 1980, McDougall & Monk 1982, and McColl-Kennedy 1986. However, under this scheme, the respective incomes of the two groups, rural and urban, were not taken into consideration.…”

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Electricity Tariffs: Social Policy Implications

McColl‐Kennedy¹,

Dann²

1989

Aust J Public Adm

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The issue of equity in the provision of public utilities is one which has been the subject of a number of Australian studies over the past ten years. In particular, the obvious inequities in pricing between different classes of electricity consumers have attracted attention. Evidence that these inequities exist not only between, but also within, consumer classes was found in a survey of Brisbane residential electricity consumers. Significantly higher rates per kilowatt hour are paid by lower income consumers and the proportion of income spent on electricity is higher than that spent by the upper income households surveyed. These inequities have important implications in the development of social policies, particularly those directed at the aged who, in many cases, rely on a low fixed income in the form of the old age pension. So far, in Australia, only the Victorian state government has approached this issue in any detail as a part of its Social Justice Strategy despite the fact that similar inequities in the provision of electricity to household consumers exist in all states.

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“…The percentage has declined from 43 per cent in 1950 to the present level, though the absolute quantityin this sector increased from 158 giga watt hours (gwh)in 1950 to 1990gwhin 1980.1 The compound growth rates for different sectors were also different. This may be seen in the following Among the Australian studies, Hawkins (1975) and Turnovsky, Folie and Ulph (1982, henceforth called TFU) estimated industrial demand for electricity separately from other types of demand. Hawkins reports the price elasticity of demand as being insignificant.…”

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confidence: 99%