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    • Rethinking Real Time Electricity Pricing 

      Allcott, Hunt (MIT Center for Energy and Environmental Policy Research, 2009-10)
      Most US consumers are charged a near-constant retail price for electricity, despite substantial hourly variation in the wholesale market price. This paper evaluates the .rst program to expose residential consumers to hourly ...

    • Social Norms and Energy Conservation 

      Allcott, Hunt (MIT Center for Energy and Environmental Policy Research, 2009-10)
      This paper evaluates a pilot program run by a company called OPOWER, previously known as Positive Energy, to mail home energy reports to residential utility consumers. The reports compare a household’s energy use to that ...

    • Black Gold & Fool’s Gold: Speculation in the Oil Futures Market 

      Parsons, John E. (MIT Center for Energy and Environmental Policy Research, 2009-09)
      This paper addresses the question of whether the oil price spike of 2003-2008 was a bubble. We document and discuss what is known about the level of speculation in the paper oil market. We then analyze the dynamics of the ...