Global warming and electricity demand in the rapidly growing city of Delhi: A semi-parametric variable coefficient approach

Energy Economics

Volumn 34, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 1407-1421

  Gupta, Eshita ^a  

^a INDIAN STATISTICAL INSTITUTE   (India)

Author keywords

Temperature electricity curve; Variable coefficient model

Indexed keywords

ADVERSE EFFECT; APPARENT TEMPERATURE; CLIMATE SENSITIVITY; CLIMATIC FACTORS; ELECTRICITY DEMANDS; PER UNIT; SEMIPARAMETRIC; SUMMER TEMPERATURE; TEMPERATURE-ELECTRICITY CURVE; U-SHAPED; VARIABLE COEFFICIENTS; VARIABLE-COEFFICIENT MODELS;

GLOBAL WARMING;

ELECTRICITY;

CLIMATE CHANGE; ELECTRICITY; ENERGY USE; GLOBAL WARMING; NUMERICAL MODEL;

DELHI; INDIA;

EID: 84863529076     PISSN: 01409883     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.eneco.2012.04.014     Document Type: Article

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