Journal
ENERGY POLICY
Volume 38, Issue 5, Pages 2470-2476Publisher
ELSEVIER SCI LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.enpol.2009.12.041
Keywords
Residential electricity; Retail deregulation; Panel cointegration
Funding
- Japan Society for the Promotion of Science
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About ten years have passed since the deregulation of the U.S. retail electricity market, and it is now generally accepted that the available data is adequate to quantitatively assess and compare conditions before and after deregulation. This study, therefore, estimates the changes in price elasticity in the residential electricity market to examine the changes, if any, in household sensitivity (as a result of retail electricity market deregulation policies) to residential electricity rates. Specifically, six types of panel data are prepared, based on three cross-sections all states (except for Alaska and Hawaii) and the District of Columbia, deregulated states, and non-deregulated states and two time series the period before deregulation and the period after deregulation. The panel empirical analysis techniques are used to determine whether or not the variables are stationary, and to estimate price elasticity. We find that there is no substantial difference in the price elasticity between deregulated and non-deregulated states for both periods before deregulation and after deregulation. Thus, it can be said that the deregulation of the retail electricity market has not made consumers more sensitive to electricity rates and that retail deregulation policies are not the cause of price elasticity differences between deregulated and non-deregulated states. (C) 2009 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
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