Reforming residential electricity tariff in China: Block tariffs pricing approach

Energy Policy

Volumn 60, Issue , 2013, Pages 741-752

  Sun, Chuanwang ^a   Lin, Boqiang ^a,b  

^a XIAMEN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b MINJIANG UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Block tariffs; Price elasticity of power demand; Residential electricity

Indexed keywords

BLOCK TARIFFS; EFFICIENT ALLOCATIONS; ELECTRICITY USAGE; EMPIRICAL FINDINGS; POWER DEMANDS; REDUCING EMISSIONS; RESIDENTIAL ELECTRICITY; RISING BLOCK TARIFF;

COSTS; ELASTICITY; ELECTRICITY; HOUSING;

ELECTRIC POWER GENERATION;

DEMAND ANALYSIS; ELECTRICITY SUPPLY; HOUSEHOLD ENERGY; LIVING STANDARD; LOW INCOME POPULATION; MODEL TEST; NONLINEARITY; POLICY REFORM; POWER GENERATION; TARIFF STRUCTURE;

CHINA;

EID: 84880331820     PISSN: 03014215     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.enpol.2013.05.023     Document Type: Article

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