Making Energy Efficiency Pro-Poor: Insights from Behavioural Economics for Policy Design

Never, Babette

doi:10.2139/ssrn.2535363

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2014

DOI: 10.2139/ssrn.2535363

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Making Energy Efficiency Pro-Poor: Insights from Behavioural Economics for Policy Design

Babette Never

Abstract: This paper reviews the current state of behavioural economics and its applications to energy efficiency in developing countries. Taking energy efficient lighting in Ghana, Uganda and Rwanda as empirical examples, this paper develops hypotheses on how behavioural factors can improve energy efficiency policies directed towards poor populations. The key argument is that different types of affordability exist that are influenced by behavioural factors to varying degrees. Using a qualitative approach, this paper fi… Show more

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“…Finland, the United Kingdom). 11 11 As information from other studies (Fuchs / Dreher / Nunnenkamp 2014) as well as from a 1998 OECD report reveals, these variables did not change over our period of investigation. Thus we are confident German Development Institute / Deutsches Institut für Entwicklungspolitik (DIE)…”

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The impact of adoption of power factor correction technology on electricity peak demand in Uganda

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Mawejje

2016

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Enhancing energy efficiency is a global priority (International Energy Agency (IEA) 2013; Linares and Labandeira 2010;Gillingham et al. 2009). At the production firm level, the benefits of energy efficiency include reduction in resource use, improved production and capacity utilization, and less operation and maintenance costs, which lead to improved productivity and competitiveness (International Energy Agency (IEA) 2013;Ryan and Campbell 2012;Worrell et al. 2003). Indeed, improvements in energy efficiency in manufacturing plants lead to reduced demand for energy and hence releasing the excess demand to other potential users (Ryan and Campbell 2012). The excess energy demand especially at peak time of use zones attracts maximum demand charges from utilities (Schneider Electric 2008), in a two-or three-part tariff structure, which includes energy and demand components.Electricity shortages are common in many countries in Sub Saharan Africa (Eberhard and Shkaratan 2012;Eberhard et al. 2008). More recently, in 2006, Uganda experienced a deficit in electricity supply owing to a prolonged drought, delayed development of the Abstract This paper examines the impact of adoption of power factor correction technology on electricity peak demand in Uganda. Specifically, the paper examines the variability of peak electricity demand in the periods before and after the implementation of power factor improvement schemes and assesses the likely impact of power factor improvement schemes on peak demand. Results suggest that power factor correction technology implemented among industries and commercial enterprises increased the power factor in these industries from an average of 0.68 to 0.95 and saved up to 8.04 MVA of demand as at the end of 2014. Results further indicate that the implementation of the power factor correction scheme has reduced the growth rate and abated the variability of both total maximum/peak demand and domestic peak demand. Finally, with the implementation of power factor correction scheme, there is a noticeable reduction in electricity consumption at peak time of use (TOU) and growth in consumption of electricity at nonpeak time TOU, which was not the case before the implementation of the scheme. Open Access© 2016 Okoboi and Mawejje. This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made.

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International Cooperation and Development: A Conceptual Overview

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2014

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Die deutsche Nationalbibliothek verzeichnet diese Publikation in der Deutschen Nationalbibliografie; detaillierte bibliografische Daten sind im Internet über http://dnb.d-nb.de abrufbar.The Deutsche Nationalbibliothek lists this publication in the Deutsche Nationalbibliografie; detailed bibliographic data is available at http://dnb. AbstractAny credible claim to implement an agenda for global development -such as currently discussed in the post-2015 process -will require integrating the broader framework of international cooperation into this effort. A wide, but vague consensus that global framework conditions matter for development has already existed in past development debates. However, good resolutions such as MDG 8 for a global partnership have shown insufficient progress in practice. This paper reviews key aspects of the relationship between international cooperation and development at a conceptual level. Drawing on a distinction between domestic and global public goods as enablers and goals of development, the paper first illustrates the role of international cooperation and its interdependence with domestic action. The framework identifies contact points in the relationship between global and domestic action and goals with the categories of provision, support, access and preservation. The second part of the paper reviews key concepts of patterns of international cooperation that represent the elements of the global governance framework to which a broadening development agenda needs to link up more strongly. Overall, the conceptual review underlines that the question of how international cooperation works has moved to the centre of development studies. Yet, an even bigger challenge than achieving cooperation in the first place might be to steer the complex architecture and processes of international cooperation towards contributing to a global agenda for development.

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Making Energy Efficiency Pro-Poor: Insights from Behavioural Economics for Policy Design

Cited by 5 publications

References 90 publications

Foreign Aid and the Domestic Politics of European Budget Support

Foreign Aid and the Domestic Politics of European Budget Support

The impact of adoption of power factor correction technology on electricity peak demand in Uganda

International Cooperation and Development: A Conceptual Overview

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