Electric Utility Rate Demonstration Project: Arkansas, 1976-1977

One in a series of studies on customer response to utilityregulatory pricing in early 1975, the Arkansas demonstration projectwas carried out by the Federal Energy Administration (FEA), theArkansas Public Service Commission, and Torche Ross and Company,spanning 12 months from February 1976 to January 1977. The study wasoriginally titled the Arkansas Demand Management Study and was anexperiment to generate and analyze data on the effects of peak-loadpricing on residential electricity consumption. The experimentaldesign featured a time of day peak-load pricing test as well as aseasonal pricing test. Five sets of data resulted from thedemonstration: questionnaire survey data from the customers, summarydemographic information, utility load reports, weather data, andcustomer usage records. All five sets are available in this datacollection. The questionnaire survey data in Part 1 consists ofinformation gathered from a post experimental survey that includes bothcontrol and experimental customers. Parts 3-5 each contain 28 days ofdata, with Parts 3 and 5 including hourly data. Parts 3-5 also containidentifying information that links their data to the pertinentcustomer/participant's demographic data in Part 2.