The Local Governance Research Lab in Florida State University obtained the raw data from a municipal electric utility in the Southeast U.S. Currently the dataset includes electricity consumption and gas consumption in 30 minutes interval, as well as monthly water consumption, for all users in the municipal utility's service area. This dataset also contains information on energy-related policy participation on household level, including rebate/loan for purchasing energy efficient appliance, energy audit program, and solar program. Housing characteristics include features of the house, such as house value, lot size, year built, room type, appliances, roof size, tree coverage, etc. Those are retrieved from multiple resources including property tax roll, property appraiser, and county LiDAR. Household level voter information is also obtained from voter registration data. Block group level social economic status statistics is merged into this dataset as proxies for household level information. The overall time span of this dataset is from 2011 to 2018.

Key Highlights

• 1. Detailed energy consumption data for water and gas in 30 minutes interval for all users served by the municipal utility (about 120,000 customers) between 2011 to 2018.

• 2. Household level energy policy participation all utility users between 2011 to 2018.

• 3. Detailed housing characteristics on parcel level from 2011 to 2017.

Technical Details

Citation

Publications

• Curley, Cali, and William L. Swann. (2019). “Voluntary Compliance in Environmental Programs.” In Contextualizing Compliance: Individual Motivations, Social Processes, and Institutional Design, edited by Saba Siddiki, Salvador Espinosa, and Tanya Heikkila. New York: Routledge.

• Xu, K., & Tang, T. (2020). Closing the Gap or Widening the Divide: The Impacts of Technology-Enabled Coproduction on Equity in Public Service Delivery. Public Administration Review, 80(6), 962-975. doi:10.1111/puar.13222

• Curley, C., Feiock, R., & Xu, K. (2020). Policy Analysis of Instrument Design: How Policy Design Affects Policy Constituency. Journal of Comparative Policy Analysis: Research and Practice, 1-22.

• Cali Curley, Nicky Harrison, Kewei Xu, Shan Zhou, Collaboration Mitigates Barriers of Utility Ownership on Energy Policy Adoption, review and resubmit in Journal of Environmental Planning and Management

• Tong, K., Ramaswami, A., Xu, C., Feiock, R., Schmitz, P., & Ohlsen, M. (2021). Measuring social equity in urban energy use and interventions using fine-scale data. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS) , 118 (24), e2023554118

Authors

In order to access the data, contact these authors.

• Tian Tang: ttang4@fsu.edu