Electricity Efficiency and U.S. Manufacturing Exports

In estimating the change in an industry's trade competitiveness that results from improvements in the efficiency of its electricity use, one can employ an industry-specific economic model that is straightforward to apply to up-to-date data for 85 four-digit manufacturing industries. The calculations based on the industry-specific model provide reasonable approximations for the effects predicted by a more elaborate computable general equilibrium (CGE) model.