| 来源类型 | Working Paper
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| 规范类型 | 报告
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| DOI | 10.3386/w22895
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| 来源ID | Working Paper 22895
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| Charging Ahead: Prepaid Electricity Metering in South Africa |
| B. Kelsey Jack; Grant Smith
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| 发表日期 | 2016-12-05
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| 出版年 | 2016
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| 语种 | 英语
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| 摘要 | The standard approach to recovering the cost of electricity provision is to bill customers monthly for past consumption. If unable to pay, customers face disconnection, the utility loses revenue, and the service provision model is undermined. A possible solution to this problem is prepaid metering, in which customers buy electricity upfront and use it until the prepaid amount is consumed. We use data from Cape Town, South Africa to examine the effects of prepaid electricity metering on residential consumption and returns to the electric utility. Over 4,000 customers on monthly billing were involuntarily assigned to receive a prepaid electricity meter, with exogenous variation in the timing of the meter replacement. Electricity use falls by about 13 percent as a result of the switch, a decrease that persists for the following year. This creates a tradeoff for the utility: revenue from consumption falls but more of it is recovered on time and at a lower cost. The benefits to the electric utility outweigh the costs, on average, though results are very heterogeneous. Poorer customers and those with a history of delinquent payment behavior show the greatest improvement in profitability when switched to a prepaid meter. These findings point to an important role for metering technologies in expanding energy access for the poor. |
| 主题 | Public Economics
; Taxation
; Industrial Organization
; Industry Studies
; Development and Growth
; Development
; Environmental and Resource Economics
; Energy
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| URL | https://www.nber.org/papers/w22895
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| 来源智库 | National Bureau of Economic Research (United States)
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| 资源类型 | 智库出版物
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| 条目标识符 | http://119.78.100.153/handle/2XGU8XDN/580568
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B. Kelsey Jack,Grant Smith. Charging Ahead: Prepaid Electricity Metering in South Africa. 2016.
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