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Title: | The Consequences of Retail Electricity Price Rises: Rethinking Customer Hardship | Contributor(s): | Simshauser, Paul (author); Nelson, Timothy (author) | Publication Date: | 2014 | DOI: | 10.1111/1467-8462.12043 | Handle Link: | https://hdl.handle.net/1959.11/14658 | Abstract: | The Australian energy sector is nearing the end of an investment megacycle, which has driven above-trend electricity tariff increases. In this article, we combine energy market and demographic data and find that the dominant thought on customer hardship, aged pensioners, pales into insignificance by comparison to those in the Family Formation cohort, those known as Australia's 'working poor'. Our modelling results are clear in their implications: hardship policy for energy customers requires re-engineering. The structure of electricity tariffs requires an overhaul - shifting to interval meters, time-of-use pricing and monthly billing to redress the investment megacycle and the incidence of hardship. | Publication Type: | Journal Article | Grant Details: | ARC/LP120200192 | Source of Publication: | The Australian Economic Review, 47(1), p. 13-43 | Publisher: | Wiley-Blackwell Publishing Asia | Place of Publication: | Australia | ISSN: | 1467-8462 0004-9018 |
Fields of Research (FoR) 2008: | 140214 Public Economics- Publically Provided Goods 140205 Environment and Resource Economics 140209 Industry Economics and Industrial Organisation |
Fields of Research (FoR) 2020: | 380114 Public economics - publicly provided goods 380105 Environment and resource economics 380109 Industry economics and industrial organisation |
Socio-Economic Objective (SEO) 2008: | 910211 Supply and Demand 910204 Industry Costs and Structure 910205 Industry Policy |
Socio-Economic Objective (SEO) 2020: | 150511 Supply and demand 150504 Industry costs and structure 150505 Industry policy |
Peer Reviewed: | Yes | HERDC Category Description: | C1 Refereed Article in a Scholarly Journal |
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