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Mabugu, Tichinashe
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Inglesi-Lotz, Roula
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2022-03-16T08:19:17Z |
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dc.date.issued |
2022 |
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dc.description.abstract |
Since 2008, the South African economy has experienced several power cuts (unplanned or as part of a load-shedding schedule), presumably because of the inability of the electricity supply to cover the demand. This paper examines the impact of such a demand-supply mismatch on the country’s economic growth within a production function framework. To do so, we use an Autoregressive Distributed Lag Model (ARDL) for the period 1985 to 2019. The paper finds that a positive mismatch (or surplus) of electricity (supply>demand) boosts economic growth in the long run. This finding provides evidence that supports the necessity of electricity supply expansion and the promotion of energy efficiency measures that both will create a mismatch (surplus) conducive to economic growth. |
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Economics |
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dc.description.embargo |
2023-02-21 |
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hj2022 |
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dc.description.uri |
https://www.tandfonline.com/loi/uesb20 |
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dc.identifier.citation |
Tichinashe Mabugu & Roula Inglesi-Lotz (2022): The effect of mismatched
supply and demand of electricity on economic growth in South Africa, Energy Sources, Part B:
Economics, Planning, and Policy, 17:1, 2038731, DOI: 10.1080/15567249.2022.2038731. |
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dc.identifier.issn |
1556-7249 (print) |
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dc.identifier.issn |
1556-7257 (online) |
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dc.identifier.other |
10.1080/15567249.2022.2038731 |
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dc.identifier.uri |
http://hdl.handle.net/2263/84502 |
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en |
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dc.publisher |
Taylor and Francis |
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dc.rights |
© 2022 Taylor & Francis Group, LLC. This is an electronic version of an article published in Energy Sources, Part B: Economics, Planning and Policy, vol. 17, no. 1, pp. 1-18, 2022. doi : 10.1080/15567249.2022.2038731. Energy Sources, Part B: Economics, Planning and Policy is available online at : http://www.tandfonline.comloi/geno20. |
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dc.subject |
Electricity |
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dc.subject |
Energy |
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dc.subject |
South Africa (SA) |
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dc.subject |
Mismatch |
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dc.title |
The effect of mismatched supply and demand of electricity on economic growth in South Africa |
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dc.type |
Postprint Article |
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