Efficiency and Regulation of the Slovenian Electricity Distribution Companies

Massimo Filippini, Nevenka Hrovatin and Jelena Zoric
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Nevenka Hrovatin: University of Ljubljana Faculty of Economics Kardeljeva plošcad 17, 1000 Ljubljana, Slovenia

No 02-14, CEPE Working paper series from CEPE Center for Energy Policy and Economics, ETH Zurich

Abstract: Energy demand, and in particular electricity demand in India has been growing at a very rapid rate over the last decade. Given, current trends in population growth, industrialisation, urbanisation, modernisation and income growth, electricity consumption is expected to increase substantially in the coming decades as well. Tariff reforms could play a potentially important role as a demand side management tool in India. However, the effects of any price revisions on consumption will depend on the price elasticity of demand for electricity. In the past, electricity demand studies for India published in international journals have been based on aggregate macro data at the country or sub-national/ state level. In this paper, price and income elasticities of electricity demand in the residential sector of all urban areas of India are estimated for the first time using disaggregate level survey data for over thirty thousand households. Three electricity demand functions have been estimated using monthly data for the following seasons: winter, monsoon and summer. The results show electricity demand is income and price inelastic in all three seasons, and that household, demographic and geographical variables are important in determining electricity demand, something that is not possible to determine using aggregate macro models alone.

Pages: 15 pages
Date: 2002-04
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