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Decomposition analysis of the variations in household electricity consumption in Brazil; Analise de decomposicao das variacoes no consumo de energia eletrica no setor residencial brasileiro

Abstract

Introduced at the end of the 1970s to study the impacts of structural changes on electricity consumption by industry, index decomposition analysis techniques have been extended to various other areas to help in the formulation of energy policies, notably in developed countries. However, few authors have applied these techniques to study the evolution of energy consumption in developing countries. In Brazil, the few available studies have focused only on the industrial sector. In this thesis, we apply the decomposition technique called the logarithmic mean Divisia index (LMDI) to electricity consumption of the Brazilian residential sector, to explain its evolution in terms of the activity, structure and intensity affects, over the period from 1980 to 2007. The results obtained in a preliminary analysis point out, in a general way, that the observed variables in electricity consumption in the Brazilian residential sector are, mainly, the product of the increase in the number of consumers and the changes in the specific consumption of electricity in households. In a further analysis, carried out when the structure is given through consumers participation in consumption categories (Low Income and Conventional) taken from an overall point of view, although the intensity and activity effects may be considered  More>>
Publication Date:
Sep 15, 2009
Product Type:
Thesis/Dissertation
Report Number:
ETDE-BR-1937
Resource Relation:
Other Information: TH: Tese (Ph.D.)
Subject:
24 POWER TRANSMISSION AND DISTRIBUTION; ELECTRIC POWER; ELECTRICITY; POWER DEMAND; POWER GENERATION; POWER POTENTIAL; POWER TRANSMISSION; PUBLIC UTILITIES; ENERGY DEMAND; ENERGY CONSUMPTION; DEMAND
OSTI ID:
21429301
Research Organizations:
Coordenacao dos Programas de Pos-Graduacao de Engenharia (COPPE/UFRJ), Rio de Janeiro, RJ (Brazil). Programa de Planejamento Energetico
Country of Origin:
Brazil
Language:
Portuguese
Other Identifying Numbers:
TRN: BR11V1434
Availability:
Commercial reproduction prohibited; OSTI as DE21429301
Submitting Site:
BR
Size:
166 pages
Announcement Date:
Jun 02, 2011

Citation Formats

Achao, Carla da Costa Lopes. Decomposition analysis of the variations in household electricity consumption in Brazil; Analise de decomposicao das variacoes no consumo de energia eletrica no setor residencial brasileiro. Brazil: N. p., 2009. Web.
Achao, Carla da Costa Lopes. Decomposition analysis of the variations in household electricity consumption in Brazil; Analise de decomposicao das variacoes no consumo de energia eletrica no setor residencial brasileiro. Brazil.
Achao, Carla da Costa Lopes. 2009. "Decomposition analysis of the variations in household electricity consumption in Brazil; Analise de decomposicao das variacoes no consumo de energia eletrica no setor residencial brasileiro." Brazil.
@misc{etde_21429301,
title = {Decomposition analysis of the variations in household electricity consumption in Brazil; Analise de decomposicao das variacoes no consumo de energia eletrica no setor residencial brasileiro}
author = {Achao, Carla da Costa Lopes}
abstractNote = {Introduced at the end of the 1970s to study the impacts of structural changes on electricity consumption by industry, index decomposition analysis techniques have been extended to various other areas to help in the formulation of energy policies, notably in developed countries. However, few authors have applied these techniques to study the evolution of energy consumption in developing countries. In Brazil, the few available studies have focused only on the industrial sector. In this thesis, we apply the decomposition technique called the logarithmic mean Divisia index (LMDI) to electricity consumption of the Brazilian residential sector, to explain its evolution in terms of the activity, structure and intensity affects, over the period from 1980 to 2007. The results obtained in a preliminary analysis point out, in a general way, that the observed variables in electricity consumption in the Brazilian residential sector are, mainly, the product of the increase in the number of consumers and the changes in the specific consumption of electricity in households. In a further analysis, carried out when the structure is given through consumers participation in consumption categories (Low Income and Conventional) taken from an overall point of view, although the intensity and activity effects may be considered the main explaining factors in consumption variation, the structure effect stands out in the period immediately after the 2001 rationing, as a reflect of the changes in the inclusion criteria in the Low Income category, specifically in the Northeast. (author)}
place = {Brazil}
year = {2009}
month = {Sep}
}