Abstract
This study is the first to analyse Indian electricity demand at both the aggregate and sectoral levels between 1981 and 2020. We use a novel autoregressive distributed lag (ADL) cointegration test in the presence of unknown structural breaks. While the income elasticity is close to one in the residential and industrial sectors, it is greater than one in the aggregate and commercial sectors. These results reveal that economy-wide electricity intensity rises with economic expansion in India. The price elasticity is negative and smaller than one in absolute value in the aggregate sector (−0.66), the residential sector (−0.83), and the industrial sector (−0.63), but it is statistically insignificant in the commercial sector. These estimates allow us to provide sector-specific information for policy design and implementation in the power market.
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