| Author Name | ISOGAWA Daiya (University of Tokyo) /OHASHI Hiroshi (Faculty Fellow, RIETI) |
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| Creation Date/NO. | September 2015 15-J-053 |
| Research Project | Basic Research for a New Industrial Policy |
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Abstract
This paper estimates the effect of load adjustment contracts offered by electric utilities in Japan on the industrial demand for electricity usage. Using unique data on the electricity usage of individual industrial users, we find that the contracts effectively decrease both electricity consumption and peak demand of the industrial users, but that the magnitude of which differs according to plant size and labor productivity.
