Mohammad Mowlaei; Moslem Yaghoobi
Abstract
The Considerable Share of natural gas in the energy basket and the growing trend in the residential sector on one hand and the exhaustible resource of natural gas as a nonrenewable resource on the other hand, make necessary to optimize the consumption of natural ...
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The Considerable Share of natural gas in the energy basket and the growing trend in the residential sector on one hand and the exhaustible resource of natural gas as a nonrenewable resource on the other hand, make necessary to optimize the consumption of natural gas. The government performed the targeted subsidies law in 18 December 2010 in Iran with the purpose of optimizing consumption of gas and the other energy carriers. According to this law, the government has increased the price of energy carriers (including natural gas) gradually and omitted the energy subsidies, but gives subsidies to some social groups in each month. The main question of this study is that" Has the targeted subsidies caused to economize the gas consumption in residential sector?" For answering the mentioned question, first, the demand of natural gas of residential sector in Iran's region7 (including provinces of Kurdistan, Hamedan, Kermanshah, Ilam, Lorestan and Markazi) is estimated during 2006-2013, using the quarterly based on FMOLS model. Then, the elasticities of price, income and cross of demand are calculated. second, the government performance based on targeted subsidies law on gas consumption in region7 is studied. The results show that the reaction of consumers of natural gas in economizing of gas is not tangible and the policy of targeted subsidies has not been more effective and it has been missing its impact in the residential behaviors for economizing of natural gas.
Nematollah Akbari; Hooshang Talebi; Azam Jalaei
Volume 3, Issue 11 , July 2014, , Pages 66-29
Abstract
Among economical sectors of the country, residential sector is the largest final consumer of energy and despite other sectors; its energy intensity has an ascending trend. Accordingly, targeted subsidies law is one of the fundamental steps by implementing, the government aims to decrease energy consumption ...
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Among economical sectors of the country, residential sector is the largest final consumer of energy and despite other sectors; its energy intensity has an ascending trend. Accordingly, targeted subsidies law is one of the fundamental steps by implementing, the government aims to decrease energy consumption in residential sector. The aim of the present investigation is to express the effect of targeted subsidies law on the rate of consumption of electricity and natural gas within Isfahan households. For this reason, the research hypotheses have been analyzed by applying family ideas and formal statistics. Statistical population consisted of all families within 14 districts of Isfahan municipality. The Sample size, In order to investigate the hypotheses by applying the gathered data by means of a questionnaire and the significant reliability of 90%, consisted of 103 families and to investigate the first hypothesis by using formal data and the reliability of 95%, it was 365 families. The method of selecting participants was stratified random sampling. The analysis was based on deductive and descriptive statistical methods. The results demonstrated that there is no significant reduction in electricity and natural gas consumption according to the families declaration. Data analysis and formal statistics have also confirmed no significant decline in electricity consumption of families after implementing the law. In addition, there is not a significant difference between fourteen zones of the city in terms of the rate of changing the consumption of electricity within families. there have been some differences between zones in terms of the rate of changing the consumption of natural gas within families.
