Electric Utility Rate Demonstration Project: Rhode Island, 1977-1978 (ICPSR 7883)

Version Date: Jan 18, 2006

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Principal Investigator(s):
United States Department of Energy

Series:

https://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR07883.v1

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Summary

One in a series of studies on customer response to utility regulatory pricing in early 1975, the Rhode Island demonstration project was carried out by the Federal Energy Administration (FEA) and the Blackstone Valley Electric Company from 1977 to 1978. The study was originally titled the Rhode Island Time of Use Rate Experiment and was conducted to generate and analyze data on the effects of peak-load pricing on residential electric consumption. The experimental design featured a seasonally differentiated time of day rate. Three sets of data resulted from the demonstration: questionnaire survey of the customers, summary demographic information, and customer usage records. All three sets are available in this data collection. Part 1 contains post-experimental customer survey responses. Part 5 contains hourly electricity consumption data for the 28 days of the experiment, along with identifying information that links such data to the pertinent customer/participant's demographic data in Part 2.

Citation

United States Department of Energy. Electric Utility Rate Demonstration Project: Rhode Island, 1977-1978. Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2006-01-18. https://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR07883.v1

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Geographic Coverage

Distributor(s)

Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research
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Time Period(s)

1977 -- 1978

Date of Collection

1977 -- 1978

Data Collection Notes

  1. Neither utility load nor weather data are available from the Rhode Island demonstration.

  2. The start dates that are reported in all three parts of the Rhode Island demonstration are essential variables in the linkage process. These variables, used in conjunction with the utility code, weather station identification, and customer identification, enable the records of Parts 2 and 5 to be matched and merged or subset. When corrections of data values were made, an updated record was added to the file, but the originally reported data record was retained. In these instances where there are duplicate records for the same reporting period, the second record has the correct data values.

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Sample

A stratified random probability sample was drawn from three rate category strata: (1) general residential customers, (2) customers with controlled water heating, and (3) electric space heating customers.

Universe

Residential customers of Blackstone Valley Electric Company (BVE).

Data Source

(1) personal interviews, (2) telephone interviews, and (3) utility usage records

Data Type(s)

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Original Release Date

1984-05-11

Version History

2018-02-15 The citation of this study may have changed due to the new version control system that has been implemented. The previous citation was:

  • U.S. Dept. of Energy. ELECTRIC UTILITY RATE DEMONSTRATION PROJECT: RHODE ISLAND, 1977-1978. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 1982. http://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR07883.v1

2006-01-18 File CB7883.ALL.PDF was removed from any previous datasets and flagged as a study-level file, so that it will accompany all downloads.

1984-05-11 ICPSR data undergo a confidentiality review and are altered when necessary to limit the risk of disclosure. ICPSR also routinely creates ready-to-go data files along with setups in the major statistical software formats as well as standard codebooks to accompany the data. In addition to these procedures, ICPSR performed the following processing steps for this data collection:

  • Standardized missing values.
  • Checked for undocumented or out-of-range codes.

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