Little is known about residential electricity demand in developing countries. In order to shed some light on this topic, this study combines data from South Africa's recent Income and Expenditure Survey with data from the ...

Analyses of residential electricity demand primarily rely on expenditure or aggregate data. However, newer sources of data, such as that from meter readings, are becoming available. In most circumstances, these newer sources ...

Due to difficulties in accessing detailed energy modelling and usage data that are required to estimate energy needs that are responsive to local circumstances, we propose an equivalence scale approach to the determination ...