| dc.description.abstract | In recent years, fuel or alarming, Taipower electricity generation fuels, including coal, oil, natural gas, which have continued to maintain high international prices for 2011, for example, the average cost of power Taipower has reached NT 2.82 per kWh, but the average per degree price was NT 2.6, the sale of electricity is higher than the cost of electricity, resulting in power the more the greater the loss. If the future national income and economic growth failed to significantly increase the demand for electricity will gradually declining.
This study focuses on income, population and family characteristics on the impact of electricity consumption, base on county data and time series data, create Panel data fixed effects model. This research study period was from 2002 to 2011, the use of household per capita income, population, family structure and the family electrical equipment as explanatory variables to explore the household electricity consumption factor. Through OLS and fixed effects regression analysis of empirical results show that: 1. Overall, electricity consumption increased with household income increased, statistically highly significant. 2. The increase in population and electricity consumption are positively correlated and statistically highly significant, and its value is greater than the resulting increase in the elastic effect. 3 In the control population, the average population per household increase in power consumption presents economies of scale exist. 4. Per capita living space increased electricity consumption also showed a positive impact. | en_US |