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Household Response to Incentive Payments for Load Shifting: A Japanese Time-of-Day Electricity Pricing Experiment

Abstract:
We measure the effect of incentive payments on residential time-of-day (TOD) electricity demand in summer, using data from a residential TOD electricity pricing experiment in the Kyushu region of southern Japan. During the experiment, participating households could receive incentive payments if they reduce their peak usage share. Results based on an econometric model indicate that households have shifted their electricity usage from peak to off-peak periods in response to the incentive payment, but the effect of the incentive payment on load shifting was modest.

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Energy Specializations: Energy Modeling – Energy Data, Modeling, and Policy Analysis; Electricity – Markets and Prices ; Electricity – Policy and Regulation

JEL Codes: Q41: Energy: Demand and Supply; Prices, Q40: Energy: General, C51: Model Construction and Estimation, D12: Consumer Economics: Empirical Analysis, D11: Consumer Economics: Theory

Keywords: Electric utilities, Load shifting, energy conservation, Time of Day (TOD) pricing, Energy use

DOI: 10.5547/ISSN0195-6574-EJ-Vol21-No1-3

Published in Volume21, Number 1 of the bi-monthly journal of the IAEE's Energy Economics Education Foundation.

 

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