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Consumption Under Noisy Price Signals: A Study of Electricity Retail Rate Deregulation in San Diego

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  • Bushnell, James
  • Mansur, Erin T.

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Utility services employ nonlinear tariffs that attempt to convey information on cost convexities. This paper examines how customers respond to noisy and volatile tariffs by measuring deregulated retail ratesï¾’ impact on electricity consumption in San Diego. When rates doubled in 2000, consumers appear to have reacted more to recent past bills than to current price information. By summerï¾’s end, we find consumption fell 6% while lagging price increases. Even months after the utility restored low historic rates customers continued curtailing demand.Weconclude that rate structures relying upon lagged wholesale price averages produce delayed responses to scarcities or high costs.

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  • Bushnell, James & Mansur, Erin T., 2005. "Consumption Under Noisy Price Signals: A Study of Electricity Retail Rate Deregulation in San Diego," Staff General Research Papers Archive 13142, Iowa State University, Department of Economics.
    • Handle: RePEc:isu:genres:13142
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