 Tropical storms and the U.S. natural gas demand: how have hurricanes impacted natural gas consumption?Kuangchung Hsu and Zhen Zhu Applied Economics, 2023, vol. 55, issue 10, 1074-1097 Abstract: Studies of the impact of tropical storms on various economic activities including energy production are on the rise given higher frequencies of tropical storms and the increasingly large and negative impact in more recent years. However, we found no academic study of tropical storms on natural gas consumption. This paper provides such a study. In carrying out the empirical investigation, we created a dataset that includes the detailed path of the storms and the cities and states impacted. We estimated the storms’ impact on temperature and also the temperature’s impact on consumption to gauge the specific impact of tropical storms by state and by end use. We found significant storm impact on natural gas consumption, especially consumption of gas to produce power. However, the impact of a typical storm on gas consumption was relatively small on a monthly basis even though it could have a large impact on storm days. This study provides an important empirical result to better understand natural gas price dynamics in the presence of a tropical storm. Date: 2023 Downloads: (external link) Related works: Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:taf:applec:v:55:y:2023:i:10:p:1074-1097 Ordering information: This journal article can be ordered from DOI: 10.1080/00036846.2022.2096205 Access Statistics for this article Applied Economics is currently edited by Anita Phillips More articles in Applied Economics from Taylor & Francis Journals |
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