Income elasticity of residential electricity consumption in rural South Africa

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dc.contributor.author Koch, Steven F.
dc.contributor.author Nkuna, Blessings
dc.contributor.author Ye, Yuxiang
dc.date.accessioned 2024-05-17T06:12:15Z
dc.date.available 2024-05-17T06:12:15Z
dc.date.issued 2024-03
dc.description.abstract 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 cannot be matched to detailed information about the household. In this research, we make use of South Africa’s Domestic Electrical Load Study, one of the only sources available in a developing country that includes both meter and household level data. Due to some gaps in the meter readings, we focus our attention on average peak electricity consumption, estimating the income elasticity with respect to morning, evening, and the average across both morning and evening peaks. Although we find differences in income responsiveness in the morning, relative to the afternoon, and across quantiles of electricity consumption, these differences tend not to be statistically significant. We do, however, find heterogeneities in those elasticities that can be correlated with, in particular, appliance ownership, suggesting that the ownership of appliances makes electricity more of a necessity, or at least makes the services derived from electricity more necessary for the household. en_US
dc.description.department Economics en_US
dc.description.librarian hj2024 en_US
dc.description.sdg SDG-01:No poverty en_US
dc.description.sdg SDG-07:Affordable and clean energy en_US
dc.description.uri https://www.elsevier.com/locate/eneeco en_US
dc.identifier.citation Koch, S.F., Nkuna, B. & Ye, Y. 2024, 'Income elasticity of residential electricity consumption in rural South Africa', Energy Economics, vol. 131, art. 107405, pp. 1-15, doi : 10.1016/j.eneco.2024.107405. en_US
dc.identifier.issn 0140-9883 (print)
dc.identifier.issn 1873-6181 (online)
dc.identifier.other 10.1016/j.eneco.2024.107405
dc.identifier.uri http://hdl.handle.net/2263/96029
dc.language.iso en en_US
dc.publisher Elsevier en_US
dc.rights © 2024 The Author(s). Published by Elsevier B.V. This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC-ND license. en_US
dc.subject Income elasticity en_US
dc.subject Residential electricity consumption en_US
dc.subject Metering data en_US
dc.subject Developing country en_US
dc.subject SDG-01: No poverty en_US
dc.subject SDG-07: Affordable and clean energy en_US
dc.title Income elasticity of residential electricity consumption in rural South Africa en_US
dc.type Article en_US


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