Demand for industrial and commercial electricity: evidence from Japan

Journal of Economic Structures

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Table 5 Contribution to regional electricity demand in the commercial sector, 1990–2010 (%)

	Growth rate of electricity demand (total)	Price	Production	Cooling degree days	Heating degree days	Margin of error
Hokkaido	1.59	0.03	0.79	0.04	0.02	0.70
Tohoku	1.71	0.02	1.14	0.02	0.04	0.49
Tokyo	2.04	0.02	1.38	0.01	0.06	0.57
Chubu	1.89	0.01	1.33	0.01	0.08	0.46
Hokuriku	1.79	0.02	1.04	0.01	0.08	0.63
Kansai	1.51	0.01	0.66	0.00	0.07	0.77
Chugoku	1.57	0.02	1.10	0.01	0.09	0.35
Shikoku	1.67	0.03	1.27	0.00	0.06	0.31
Kyushu	1.93	0.03	1.31	0.00	0.10	0.48
Okinawa	1.66	0.01	2.11	0.00	1.16	−1.61
Average	1.74	0.02	1.11	0.01	0.07	0.53

Notes: The growth rate of electricity demand (total) is the finite difference approximation of the logarithm (annual average). The regional classification is as follows: Hokkaido (Hokkaido), Tohoku (Aomori, Iwate, Miyagi, Akita, Yamagata, Fukushima, and Niigata), Tokyo (Ibaraki, Tochigi, Gunma, Saitama, Chiba, Tokyo, Kanagawa, and Yamanashi), Hokuriku (Toyama, Ishikawa, and Fukui), Chubu (Nagano, Gifu, Shizuoka, Aichi, and Mie), Kansai (Shiga, Kyoto, Osaka, Hyogo, Nara, and Wakayama), Chugoku (Tottori, Shimane, Okayama, Hiroshima, and Yamaguchi), Shikoku (Tokushima, Kagawa, Ehime, and Kochi), Kyushu (Fukuoka, Saga, Nagasaki, Kumamoto, Oita, Miyazaki, and Kagoshima), and Okinawa (Okinawa)