Effects of Consumers' Attitudes and Knowledge on the Acceptance and Utilization of Time-of-Use Rates: Edmond, Oklahoma. Final Report

摘要

The Edmond, Oklahoma, Time-of-use (TOU) Rate Demonstration Project was concerned with the effects of various TOU rate schedules on consumers' electrical usage. Both total usage and temporal patterns of electric consumption were studied in this demonstration. This report summarizes the results of a series of secondary analyses of data based on exit and followup surveys. These analyses were focused principally on the effects of consumers' knowledge of, and attitudes toward, the TOU rate structure to which they were assigned, and the impact of these reactions on their electric usage, relative to that of a comparable group of consumers. (ERA citation 09:033478)