 The Distributional Impacts of Time-Varying Electricity Pricing: A Novel Approach to Estimating Household IncomeMar Reguant, Natalia Fabra and Jingyuan Wang No 17200, CEPR Discussion Papers from Centre for Economic Policy Research Abstract: As interest in the distributional effects of climate policies gains prominence, designing electricity tariffs that are both efficient and equitable becomes critical. Efficiency often favors the shift from time-invariant to time-of-use (ToU) or real-time prices (RTP), but this transition may have distributional implications. We develop a framework to assess the implications and the channels through which distributional impacts manifest. Central to our approach is a novel method that infers individual household income by combining zip-code-level income data with household-level electricity consumption. We demonstrate the value of this method in the Spanish context. First, we show that using more granular estimates of income has an impact on the distributional assessment of electricity tariffs. Second, we find that the potential distributional impact of RTP is very modest compared to the impact of ToU. Keywords: Dynamic pricing; Electricity; Distributional effects; Generalized method of moments; Clustering (search for similar items in EconPapers) Downloads: (external link) Related works: Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:cpr:ceprdp:17200 Ordering information: This working paper can be ordered from Access Statistics for this paper More papers in CEPR Discussion Papers from Centre for Economic Policy Research 33 Great Sutton Street, London EC1V 0DX, UK. |
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