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  • Pedro Joaquín Chévez Instituto de Investigaciones y Políticas del Ambiente Construido (IIPAC CONICET-UNLP).
  • Irene Martini Instituto de Investigaciones y Políticas del Ambiente Construido (IIPAC CONICET-UNLP).
  • Carlos Discoli Instituto de Investigaciones y Políticas del Ambiente Construido (IIPAC CONICET-UNLP).
Vol. 59 No. 3 (2020): New mobilities between Spain and Latin America: return versus rooting and return to emigration, Articles, pages 197-218
DOI: https://doi.org/10.30827/cuadgeo.v59i3.13812
Submitted: Mar 1, 2020 Accepted: Jun 30, 2020 Published: Jul 22, 2020
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The electricity Integral Tariff Revision (ITR) carried out in 2016 in Argentina has generated a significant impact on society, resulting in increases of 2000% (nominal) and 1000% (real) in residential bills (2014 vs. 2018). This situation generated a consequent increase in the share of the cost of electric service over family income, which had a differentiated impact over each social stratum. Indeed, questions arise about the energy behavior (increase/decrease) of the different users in the context of strong increases in the price of this energy vector. Hence, we present a territorial analysis of the variations in residential electricity consumption between 2014 and 2018 in La Plata city (Buenos Aires-Argentina), in two work scales: an intra-urban (five homogeneous areas) and a global-urban (total municipality). This approach allows identifying differentiated behaviors and getting conclusions regarding the territorial impact of the Integral Tariff Revision. The main results show that in the global-urban scale consumption was -3.33%; while in the intra-urban scale there are variations ranging from -12.84% to +17.51%, which are associated with socio-economic and consolidation variables that characterize each homogeneous area.

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Chévez, P. J., Martini, I., & Discoli, C. (2020). Territorial analysis of the 2016 electrical Integral Tariff Review impact in the Argentinian residential sector: the case of La Plata city, Buenos Aires (2014-2018). Cuadernos Geográficos, 59(3), 197–218. https://doi.org/10.30827/cuadgeo.v59i3.13812