Determinants of short-run electricity consumption in the Philippines
| dc.contributor.advisor | Ravago, Majah-Leah V. | |
| dc.contributor.author | Racadio, Lorenzo Romeo C. | |
| dc.contributor.author | Salarda, John Renz G. | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2024-09-30T07:53:12Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2024-09-30T07:53:12Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2018-01 | |
| dc.description.abstract | Electricity is an essential need to power appliance needs of households. We want to determine how households consume electricity with the aim of determining what factors affect electricity consumption using the Household Energy Consumption Surveys of 2011 and 2004. Our regression is a log-level model regressing monthly electricity consumption against household characteristics, particularly income, energy conservation efficiency, temperature, appliance quantity and electricity price. Our findings suggest intuitive. However, increases in unidentified appliances and worse conservation efficiency lead to decreases in consumption. Most households that own unidentified appliances or have poorer conservation ratings tend to have lower incomes, hence the decrease in consumption. As a result, we conduct another set of regressions that consider relationships between income and appliance quantity, conservation rating and income, and temperature and electricity price. In the results, we see that income and appliance quantity are linked with increases in consumption, holding conservation rating and income constant respectively. The interaction of electricity price and temperature is associated with the trend that electricity consumption increases with increases in electricity price or temperature given the other variable. Meanwhile, counter intuitive increases in consumption associated with household conservation grade improvements lead us to conclude that there are deeper endogenous relationships present between conservation rating and other factors. Some policy options then to increase consumption pertain to incentives for urbanization and live births, and also conducting trade with countries that provide low cost appliances. | |
| dc.identifier.uri | https://selib.upd.edu.ph/etdir/handle/123456789/509 | |
| dc.language.iso | en | |
| dc.subject | household | |
| dc.subject | electricity | |
| dc.subject | consumption | |
| dc.title | Determinants of short-run electricity consumption in the Philippines | |
| dc.type | Thesis |