Regional Differences in the Price-Elasticity of Demand For Energy
ResearchPublished Nov 1, 2005
The Department of Energy has a series of programs intended to spur development and adoption of energy-efficient technologies. This report examines how trends in the energy market may vary at the state and regional levels, and how price-elasticity of demand (a measure of how demand responds to price), varies at the national, regional, state, and utility levels. To determine if regional, state, or sub-state characteristics could affect the size of the impact of energy-efficient technologies on energy prices, supply, and consumption, it is necessary to examine how individual factors-such as climate, supply constraints, energy costs, and demand for natural gas-might affect the extent of this impact. Three energy-demand components are addressed in this report: electricity use in the residential sector, natural gas use in the residential sector, and electricity use in the commercial sector. The goal of this research is to determine whether state- and regional-level differences were significant enough to recommend to the Department of Energy the disaggregation of data by state or region when estimating the potential benefits of energy-efficient technologies.
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- Year: 2005
- Pages: 120
- Document Number: TR-292-NREL
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Bernstein, Mark A. and James Griffin, Regional Differences in the Price-Elasticity of Demand For Energy. Santa Monica, CA: RAND Corporation, 2005. https://www.rand.org/pubs/technical_reports/TR292.html.
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