Dynamic Pricing of Electricity

Paul Joskow and Catherine D. Wolfram

American Economic Review, 2012, vol. 102, issue 3, 381-85

Abstract: As both a regulator and an academic, Fred Kahn argued that end-use electricity consumers should face prices that reflect the time-varying marginal costs of generating electricity. This has been very slow to happen in the US, even in light of recent technological advances that have lowered costs and improved functionality for meters and automated demand response technologies. We describe these recent developments and discuss the remaining barriers to the proliferation of time-varying electricity pricing.

Date: 2012
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