Residential customer acceptance and response to time-of-use electricity tariffs
- Authors: Jansen, M.V.
- Date: 2015-03-18
- Subjects: Electric power consumption - South Africa , Energy consumption - South Africa , South Africa. Electricity Supply Commission
- Type: Thesis
- Identifier: http://ujcontent.uj.ac.za8080/10210/380199 , uj:13440 , http://hdl.handle.net/10210/13478
- Description: M.Com. (Business Management) , The residential demand profile for electricity shows that this segment of the market has. a great demand in the morning and early evening. Due to a shortage of generation capacity during these peak consumption periods, different strategies are now needed to persuade customers to use their electricity in the periods when there is not a great demand. One way in which this can be achieved is to give the customers a time differentiated tariff i.e. a time-of-use (TOU) tariff, whereby the customer will pay a high energy rate in the peak periods, and lower energy rates in the off-peak and standard periods. The overall goal of this study was to determine to what extent residential customers would respond to such a tariff The study covered three consumption groups i.e. customers using more than 1500 kWh per month, between 600 and 1000 kWh per month, and between 300 and 600 kWh per month. All the customers taking part in the study were direct Eskom customers. Once the customers had agreed to participate in the study, they had TOU measuring equipment installed in their homes, which measured their consumption according to the time of day it was consumed.
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- Authors: Jansen, M.V.
- Date: 2015-03-18
- Subjects: Electric power consumption - South Africa , Energy consumption - South Africa , South Africa. Electricity Supply Commission
- Type: Thesis
- Identifier: http://ujcontent.uj.ac.za8080/10210/380199 , uj:13440 , http://hdl.handle.net/10210/13478
- Description: M.Com. (Business Management) , The residential demand profile for electricity shows that this segment of the market has. a great demand in the morning and early evening. Due to a shortage of generation capacity during these peak consumption periods, different strategies are now needed to persuade customers to use their electricity in the periods when there is not a great demand. One way in which this can be achieved is to give the customers a time differentiated tariff i.e. a time-of-use (TOU) tariff, whereby the customer will pay a high energy rate in the peak periods, and lower energy rates in the off-peak and standard periods. The overall goal of this study was to determine to what extent residential customers would respond to such a tariff The study covered three consumption groups i.e. customers using more than 1500 kWh per month, between 600 and 1000 kWh per month, and between 300 and 600 kWh per month. All the customers taking part in the study were direct Eskom customers. Once the customers had agreed to participate in the study, they had TOU measuring equipment installed in their homes, which measured their consumption according to the time of day it was consumed.
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Opleiding in vraagstelling deur middel van simulasie in die Plato-stelsel
- Authors: Swart, Johannes Petrus
- Date: 2014-04-03
- Subjects: Computer-assisted instruction - Computer programs - Evaluation , Computer-assisted instruction , South Africa. Electricity Supply Commission
- Type: Thesis
- Identifier: uj:10506 , http://hdl.handle.net/10210/10009
- Description: M.Ed. (Computer-Based Education) , Please refer to full text to view abstract
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- Authors: Swart, Johannes Petrus
- Date: 2014-04-03
- Subjects: Computer-assisted instruction - Computer programs - Evaluation , Computer-assisted instruction , South Africa. Electricity Supply Commission
- Type: Thesis
- Identifier: uj:10506 , http://hdl.handle.net/10210/10009
- Description: M.Ed. (Computer-Based Education) , Please refer to full text to view abstract
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Energy capital, productive capital and economic growth : a crossmunicipality granger causality analysis
- Authors: Chiviya, Kudzai
- Date: 2017
- Subjects: Electric power distribution - South Africa , Electric power distribution - Economic aspects - South Africa , South Africa. Electricity Supply Commission , Electric power failures - South Africa , Municipal government - South Africa , Eskom (Firm) , Power resources - South Africa , Economic development - South Africa
- Language: English
- Type: Masters (Thesis)
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10210/271851 , uj:28921
- Description: M.Com. (Local Economic Development) , Abstract: In 2008 South Africa experienced a period of constrained electricity supply, which led to wide-spread blackouts. In order to deal with these electricity capacity constraints, there has since been a shift in focus in the country with significant investment in this sector. Most studies in the energy-economic growth nexus have focused on the economic effects of energy use. There is a body of literature that has looked at infrastructure investment and economic growth, but does not treat energy investment as a particular kind. We argue that it is not only energy consumption that matters for economic growth, but the investment it its production as well. Investors might carefully watch energy capacity development in order to make their investment decisions in other economic sectors, which make investment in energy a possible trigger of capital formation in other sectors and subsequent economic growth. With this hypothesis, our paper investigates the causal relationship between investments in energy and capital formation in other sectors of the economy on one hand, and the causal relations to economic growth on the other. We use annual data for 228 South African municipalities from 1993 to 2015. The paper uses the newly developed heterogeneous panel Granger causality methodology, which improves the traditional causality approaches in accounting for heterogeneity and cross-sectional dependence in the panel data. Traditional approaches were developed under the assumption of homogeneity in slope, intercept or both, and the independence of panel units. Our findings are therefore more robust to heterogeneity issues and account for individual differences between municipalities. Another difference between this paper and the majority of academic work is our shift in focus from a national level to a local/municipal level. Our findings suggest that there is an overall bidirectional causal relationship between investments in energy, capital formation in other sectors of the economy, and economic growth. This finding highlights the potential that investments in energy have to trigger capital formation in other sectors and promote economic growth. Such findings will have significant local economic development implications in terms of the role of energy capital in attracting capital in other sectors, with broader implications for economic growth in view of job creation and poverty reduction.
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- Authors: Chiviya, Kudzai
- Date: 2017
- Subjects: Electric power distribution - South Africa , Electric power distribution - Economic aspects - South Africa , South Africa. Electricity Supply Commission , Electric power failures - South Africa , Municipal government - South Africa , Eskom (Firm) , Power resources - South Africa , Economic development - South Africa
- Language: English
- Type: Masters (Thesis)
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10210/271851 , uj:28921
- Description: M.Com. (Local Economic Development) , Abstract: In 2008 South Africa experienced a period of constrained electricity supply, which led to wide-spread blackouts. In order to deal with these electricity capacity constraints, there has since been a shift in focus in the country with significant investment in this sector. Most studies in the energy-economic growth nexus have focused on the economic effects of energy use. There is a body of literature that has looked at infrastructure investment and economic growth, but does not treat energy investment as a particular kind. We argue that it is not only energy consumption that matters for economic growth, but the investment it its production as well. Investors might carefully watch energy capacity development in order to make their investment decisions in other economic sectors, which make investment in energy a possible trigger of capital formation in other sectors and subsequent economic growth. With this hypothesis, our paper investigates the causal relationship between investments in energy and capital formation in other sectors of the economy on one hand, and the causal relations to economic growth on the other. We use annual data for 228 South African municipalities from 1993 to 2015. The paper uses the newly developed heterogeneous panel Granger causality methodology, which improves the traditional causality approaches in accounting for heterogeneity and cross-sectional dependence in the panel data. Traditional approaches were developed under the assumption of homogeneity in slope, intercept or both, and the independence of panel units. Our findings are therefore more robust to heterogeneity issues and account for individual differences between municipalities. Another difference between this paper and the majority of academic work is our shift in focus from a national level to a local/municipal level. Our findings suggest that there is an overall bidirectional causal relationship between investments in energy, capital formation in other sectors of the economy, and economic growth. This finding highlights the potential that investments in energy have to trigger capital formation in other sectors and promote economic growth. Such findings will have significant local economic development implications in terms of the role of energy capital in attracting capital in other sectors, with broader implications for economic growth in view of job creation and poverty reduction.
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'n Bemiddelingsopleidingsmodel vir bestuurders in ESKOM
- Authors: Harley, Sanette
- Date: 2015-10-29
- Subjects: South Africa. Electricity Supply Commission , Executives - Training of , Training manuals , Mediation
- Type: Thesis
- Identifier: http://ujcontent.uj.ac.za8080/10210/371716 , uj:14500 , http://hdl.handle.net/10210/15021
- Description: M.A. (Social Work) , This development research aims to develop a prototype mediation model for leaders to enable them to solve conflict effectively on the shop floor. The primary motivation for the study is an attempt to find a workable solution for day to day conflict. Such a solution has to be practical, easy to implement and coincide with current processes within the Generation Group ...
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- Authors: Harley, Sanette
- Date: 2015-10-29
- Subjects: South Africa. Electricity Supply Commission , Executives - Training of , Training manuals , Mediation
- Type: Thesis
- Identifier: http://ujcontent.uj.ac.za8080/10210/371716 , uj:14500 , http://hdl.handle.net/10210/15021
- Description: M.A. (Social Work) , This development research aims to develop a prototype mediation model for leaders to enable them to solve conflict effectively on the shop floor. The primary motivation for the study is an attempt to find a workable solution for day to day conflict. Such a solution has to be practical, easy to implement and coincide with current processes within the Generation Group ...
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