Income elasticity of residential electricity consumption in rural South Africa

dc.contributor.authorKoch, Steven F.
dc.contributor.authorNkuna, Blessings
dc.contributor.authorYe, Yuxiang
dc.contributor.emailsteve.koch@up.ac.zaen_US
dc.date.accessioned2024-05-17T06:12:15Z
dc.date.available2024-05-17T06:12:15Z
dc.date.issued2024-03
dc.description.abstractAnalyses 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.departmentEconomicsen_US
dc.description.librarianhj2024en_US
dc.description.sdgSDG-01:No povertyen_US
dc.description.sdgSDG-07:Affordable and clean energyen_US
dc.description.urihttps://www.elsevier.com/locate/eneecoen_US
dc.identifier.citationKoch, 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.issn0140-9883 (print)
dc.identifier.issn1873-6181 (online)
dc.identifier.other10.1016/j.eneco.2024.107405
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/2263/96029
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.publisherElsevieren_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.subjectIncome elasticityen_US
dc.subjectResidential electricity consumptionen_US
dc.subjectMetering dataen_US
dc.subjectDeveloping countryen_US
dc.subjectSDG-01: No povertyen_US
dc.subjectSDG-07: Affordable and clean energyen_US
dc.titleIncome elasticity of residential electricity consumption in rural South Africaen_US
dc.typeArticleen_US

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