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Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-From: Jeff Dasovich X-To: Rob Bradley, James D Steffes, Richard Shapiro, Tom Briggs, skean@enron.com, Paul Kaufman, Jennifer Thome, Robert Neustaedter, Robert Frank, Harry Kingerski, Sandra McCubbin, Susan J Mara, Alan Comnes, Joe Hartsoe, Sarah Novosel, Donna Fulton, Janel Guerrero, Karen Denne X-cc: X-bcc: X-Folder: \Jeff_Dasovich_June2001\Notes Folders\All documents X-Origin: DASOVICH-J X-FileName: jdasovic.nsf "The Impact of Retail Rate Deregulation on Electricity Consumption in San Diego" (April 2001) PWP-082 by James B. Bushnell and Erin T. Mansur Retail electricity rates in the San Diego Gas & Electric service territory more than doubled over a period of three months during the summer of 2000. Much of this increase was subsequently rescinded through a retroactive rate freeze. We examine the impact of these events on overall consumption levels in San Diego. We find that average electricity consumption decreased by roughly 55 MW, or 1.6%, between mid-July and the end of August. Demand was reduced by over 6% in the late afternoon and late evening. Because of the uncertainty about the duration and the credibility of the rate increase, these results should be viewed as a lower bound on the demand reductions that could be achieved through pricing incentives. Download this paper in Adobe Acrobat format: http://www.ucei.org/PDF/pwp082.pdf
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