Scale-specific importance of weather variables for explanation of variations of electricity consumption: The case of Prague, Czech Republic

Energy Economics

Volumn 40, Issue , 2013, Pages 503-514

  Bašta, Milan ^a   Helman, Karel ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ECONOMICS   (Czech Republic)

Author keywords

Electricity consumption; Sunshine duration; Temperature; Time scale; Wavelet analysis

Indexed keywords

ELECTRICITY-CONSUMPTION; EXPLANATORY VARIABLES; PRAGUE , CZECH REPUBLIC; SUNSHINE DURATION; TIME-SCALES;

TEMPERATURE; WAVELET ANALYSIS;

TIME MEASUREMENT;

CONSUMPTION BEHAVIOR; ELECTRICITY SUPPLY; ENERGY MARKET; ENERGY USE; MODELING; TEMPERATURE EFFECT;

CZECH REPUBLIC; PRAGUE;

EID: 84883829860     PISSN: 01409883     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.eneco.2013.07.023     Document Type: Article

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