| Author | Pradhan, Madhab P. |
| Call Number | AIT Thesis no. IE-79-12 |
| Subject(s) | Electricity
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| Note | A thesis submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Engineering, School of Engineering and Technology |
| Publisher | Asian Institute of Technology |
| Abstract | The purpose of this research is to study the electricity consumption, to identify the factors that determine electricity demand and to estimate the electricity demand functions for residential, commercial, industrial sectirs.
Electricity demand functions are derived on the assumptions that the demands are products of rate of utilization of electrical appliances and stock of the appliances, and the desired stock of appliances is related to
actual stock of the appliances by logarithmic adjustment flow model. The demand functions are dynamic with one year lagged dependent variable as an
independent variable. The electricity consumption and other economic data of each region are pooled together to increase the sample size and the demand functions are
estimated by error component method with an instrument variable for the lagged variable. The demand functions are found to be price and income
inelastic in short run. |
| Year | 1979 |
| Type | Thesis |
| School | School of Engineering and Technology |
| Department | Department of Industrial Systems Engineering (DISE) |
| Academic Program/FoS | Industrial Engineering (IE) |
| Chairperson(s) | Tang, John C.S. |
| Examination Committee(s) | Pakorn Adulbhan ; Prapon Vongvichien |
| Scholarship Donor(s) | Carl Duisberg Gesellschaft, e.V. |
| Degree | Thesis (M.Eng.) - Asian Institute of Technology, 1979 |