Replication Data for: The Effect of the Demand-Side Management Financial Incentive Program on Energy Savings: Evidence from Minnesota

This dataset includes replication files for the associated research article, "The Effect of the Demand-Side Management Financial Incentive Program on Energy Savings: Evidence from Minnesota". The main dataset is related to the Shared Savings Demand-Side Management Financial Incentive Program in Minnesota. It forms an unbalanced panel of 4 electric and 5 gas utilities with 130 observations, covering 2006–2023. It contains annual data on energy efficiency programs administered by investor-owned electric and gas utilities in Minnesota from 2006 through 2023. Variables include first-year energy savings from utility programs, financial incentives awards, utility expenditures on energy efficiency programs, net benefits derived from these programs and related metrics. We also supplement this dataset with utility-year-specific average winter temperatures and demographic controls. Sources include the Minnesota Public Utilities Commission's eDockets website, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, the Minnesota State Demographic Center, the National Cancer Institute SEER datasets, and the U.S. Census Bureau. The author complied this dataset mainly during a research internship at the Minnesota Department of Commerce, with additions made as a PhD student at the University of Minnesota. We use this dataset in the associated article to examine the effects of the Demand-Side Management Financial Incentive Program on offsetting utilities' disincentive to engage in energy efficiency programs. This dataset also includes related scripts (R code) used to generate the tables, graphs, and analyses presented in the associated research article. A README file provides instructions for reproducing the results. Including these code files ensures full transparency and allows other researchers to replicate the analyses.本数据集包含配套研究论文《需求侧管理财政激励计划对节能的影响：来自明尼苏达州的证据》的复现文件。主体数据集关联明尼苏达州共享储蓄型需求侧管理财政激励计划（Shared Savings Demand-Side Management Financial Incentive Program），其为非平衡面板数据，涵盖4家电力公用事业单位与5家燃气公用事业单位，共130条观测值，时间跨度为2006年至2023年。数据集包含2006至2023年明尼苏达州投资者所有型电力与燃气公用事业单位所运营的节能项目的年度数据，变量包括公用事业项目首年节能量、财政激励奖励金额、公用事业在节能项目上的支出、由此类项目产生的净收益及相关指标。本数据集还补充了各公用事业年度的冬季平均气温与人口统计控制变量。数据来源包括明尼苏达州公共事业委员会eDockets网站、美国国家海洋和大气管理局（National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration）、明尼苏达州人口统计中心、美国国家癌症研究所SEER数据集以及美国人口普查局。本数据集主要由作者在明尼苏达州商务部研究实习期间汇编，后续由明尼苏达大学在读博士生补充完善。本数据集在配套论文中用于考察需求侧管理财政激励计划对抵消公用事业开展节能项目的抑制效应的作用。本数据集还包含用于生成配套研究论文中表格、图表与分析结果的R代码脚本。附带的README文件提供了复现研究结果的操作指南，纳入这些代码文件可确保研究的完全透明度，便于其他研究者复现相关分析。