Extreme daily increases in peak electricity demand: Tail-quantile estimation

Energy Policy

Volumn 53, Issue , 2013, Pages 90-96

  Sigauke, Caston ^a   Verster, Andréhette ^b   Chikobvu, Delson ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LIMPOPO   (South Africa)

^b UNIVERSITY OF THE FREE STATE   (South Africa)

Author keywords

Dynamic pricing programme; Generalized Single Pareto distribution; Load management

Indexed keywords

COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS; DYNAMIC PRICING; ELECTRICITY BILLING SYSTEM; ELECTRICITY DEMANDS; GENERALIZED PARETO DISTRIBUTION; OFF-PEAK PERIODS; OFF-PEAK TIME; PARETO DISTRIBUTIONS; PEAK ELECTRICITY DEMAND; POLICY IMPLICATIONS; SOUTH AFRICA;

ELECTRIC LOAD MANAGEMENT; ELECTRICITY; PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS; PUBLIC POLICY;

ENERGY EFFICIENCY;

DEMAND ANALYSIS; ELECTRICITY; EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS; ENERGY POLICY; NUMERICAL MODEL;

SOUTH AFRICA;

EID: 84871458795     PISSN: 03014215     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.enpol.2012.10.073     Document Type: Article

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