The long-run value of electricity reliability in India
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Author(s)
Khanna, Shefali
Rowe, Kevin
Type
Journal Article
Abstract
This paper evaluates residential consumers’ electricity consumption and appliance investment responses to power outages from 2015 to 2019 in Delhi, India. Our empirical strategy takes advantage of features of the electricity distribution network in the service territory of one of Delhi’s regulated distribution utilities that exposes similar customers to plausibly exogenous annual variation in electricity reliability. Using original household survey data and four years of billing and power outage records for more than one million customers, we estimate that an additional hour per month of power outages reduced electricity consumption by 4.8 percent. These estimates suggest that households are willing to pay USD 1.50 per kWh of lost consumption, which is more than 25 times the average price they pay for grid electricity.
Date Issued
2024-04
Date Acceptance
2024-01-02
Citation
Resource and Energy Economics, 2024, 77
ISSN
0928-7655
Publisher
Elsevier
Journal / Book Title
Resource and Energy Economics
Volume
77
Copyright Statement
© 2024 The Authors. Published by Elsevier B.V. This is an open access article under the CC BY license
(http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
(http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
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Identifier
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.reseneeco.2024.101425
Publication Status
Published
Article Number
101425
Date Publish Online
2024-01-11