Utilities Policy

Article	Citations
Editorial Board	195
Ways to promote investments in sustainable energy utilities in the central Asian regional economic cooperation program region	134
Opportunities and challenges for small-scale flexibility in European electricity markets	108
Legislative reforms and market dynamics in the provision of urban water service by private contract operators in Spain	97
Assessing the effect of increasing block tariffs for residential natural gas in Hefei City, China	78
Designing circular economy-compliant municipal solid waste management charging schemes	73
Excess demand or excess supply? A comparison of renewable energy certificate markets in the United Kingdom and Australia	72
Heterogeneity in own-price residential customer demand elasticities for electricity under time-of-use rates: Evidence from a randomized-control trial in the United States	68
Assessing the relationship between electricity theft and customer payment habits: A machine-learning approach	63
Feasibility analysis of implementing an On Bill Financing program to promote energy-efficiency in Dubai-UAE	60
Navigating the transition: The impacts of electricity tariff regulation on distributed generation in Brazil	60
Evaluation of the multi-dimensional growth potential of China's public charging facilities for electric vehicles through 2030	55
Exploratory analysis of the water governance frameworks regarding the OECD principles in two river basins in Brazil and Portugal	54
Household access to the public electricity grid in Cameroon: Analysis of connection determinants	54
Good governance and energy justice: Pathways to human development	52
Outage-induced power backup choice in Pakistan	52
Reinventing European air traffic control based on the covid-19 pandemic experience	51
Addressing low-quality electricity service for low-income consumers: Empirical evidence from Brazil	51
Water governance models for meeting sustainable development Goals:A structured literature review	50
Household energy poverty and personal time allocation: Empirical evidence from China	46
A fair grid connection cost-sharing model for electricity based on the random forest machine learning method	44
Characterizing flexibility in power markets and systems	44
Assessing the integration of planning instruments for urban land use and water service	43
An integrated model for electricity market coupling simulations: Evidence from the European power market crossroad	36
A review of global research on private investment in the water sector	36

The electrification-social development nexus in Bangladesh: Do governmental policies matter?	35
Optimal policies for electromobility: Joint assessment of transport and electricity distribution costs in Norway	35
A system dynamics framework to formulate energy policies for sustainable development in Ethiopia	34
Technological innovation and energy efficiency in central Eastern European countries	33
Cybersecurity and resilience in the swiss electricity sector: Status and policy options	32
A mixed-method analysis of New Zealand's smart meter rollout experience	32
Development and application of regional urban water security indicators	31
Is it all about supply? Demand-side effects on the Spanish electricity market following Covid-19 lockdown policies	30
Inflation effects of oil and gas prices in the UK: Symmetries and asymmetries	30
Subnational perspectives on energy transition pathways for Mexico's electricity grid	29
A sustainability assessment of decentralized water supply systems in Bandung City, Indonesia	29
Energy resource productivity and environmental quality: A quantile-on-quantile study of Latin America from 1990 to 2022	28
Transforming marginal-cost pricing: A blockchain approach to fundamental energy system dynamics	27
Service quality performance indicators for electricity distribution in Brazil	27
An experiment in own-price elasticity estimation for non-residential electricity demand in the U.S.	26
Public-sector reform: Lessons from the privatisation experiment in Greece	26
Factors influencing residential water consumption in Wallonia, Belgium	26
Is more competition better? Retail electricity prices and switching rates in the European Union	25
Screening for collusion in wholesale electricity markets: A literature review	25
Urban broadband infrastructure and green total-factor energy efficiency in China	25
Comparative analysis of energy poverty definition and measurement in Portugal and Spain	24
The distributional effects of rural electrification on household welfare: Evidence from Senegal	24
Open questions for public water management: Discussions from Uruguay's restatization process	24
Improving asset management in capital-intensive industries: Case study of a Portuguese water utility	23
Editorial Board	23
Does district heating affect residential property prices? Case study of an urban area in South Korea	23
Regulating electricity spot markets during extreme events: The 2021 Texas case	22
Estimating stranded coal assets in China's power sector	22
Incorporating nonrevenue water in the efficiency assessment of water supply utilities: A parametric enhanced hyperbolic distance function	21
Influence of population mobility on electricity consumption in seven U.S. cities during the COVID-19 pandemic	21
Transition to greener electricity and resource use impact on environmental quality: Policy based study from OECD countries	21
A lifecycle-based indicator to support residual solid waste flow planning at the regional level	20
Asymmetric impact of green bonds on energy efficiency: Fresh evidence from quantile estimation	20
A case study of financing zero-emission power-to-gas technologies in Spain	19
Forecasting of Türkiye's net electricity consumption with metaheuristic algorithms	19
Detection of unauthorized consumption in water supply systems: A case study using logistic regression	19
Assessing water conservation behaviour of India's urban households	19
Electricity system resilience: An integrated bibliometric and systematic literature review	18
Editorial Board	18
Environmental benefits of energy poverty alleviation, renewable resources, and urbanization in North Africa	18
Customer complaint management and smart technology adoption by community water systems	18
Modelling features and outcomes of Brazil's electricity tariff flag program	18
Open Water: Impacts of Retail Competition on Service Performance and Water-Use Efficiency in England	18
No-queue road pricing: A comprehensive policy instrument for Europe?	18
Payback of natural gas turbines: A retrospective analysis with implications for decarbonizing grids	17
Socioeconomic drivers of residential electricity expenditures in India	17
Regulatory analysis of E-mobility for Brazil: A comparative review and outlook	16
Assessing the public-private partnership handover: Experience from China's water sector	16
Multi-criteria decision support: A case study of Southeast Europe power systems	16
New avenues for community solar adoption research: A qualitative comparative analysis of ten U.S. states	16

Solving electric power distribution uncertainty using deep learning and incentive-based demand response	16
Water poverty in a ‘Hydro Nation’: Exploring distributional and recognitional water injustice in Scotland	16
Drivers of mobile broadband pricing: Cross-national evidence on policy and market dynamics	16
A note on hydropower as a marginal price setter for Spain's electricity market in 2021–2022	15
Efficiency of water service management alternatives in Spain considering environmental factors	15
Measuring energy poverty by estimating the income elasticity of energy demand: An application to Kazakhstan	15
Management efficiency of Chinese toll road operating companies and influencing factors	15
China's textbook approach to regulatory reform of the natural gas market	15
A data-driven approach to reduce electricity theft in developing countries	15
Impact of Spanish renewable support scheme reforms on the revenues of photovoltaic power plants	15
Water democracy under European Union law: Requiring participatory services management	15
Are Brazilian water auction prices affordable for vulnerable families?	15
Transition mapping for modern energy service provision under uncertainty: A case study from Brazil	15
Agent-based modeling of residential photovoltaic adoption and diffusion: Implications for energy policy design	15
Efficient firms are all alike, but every inefficient firm is such in its own way: Heterogeneity of costs determinants in the Italian water sector	15
Waste management, quality of life and natural resources utilization matter for renewable electricity generation: The main and moderate role of environmental policy	15
Is cognition of residential tiered pricing policy effective in reducing electricity consumption in China?	14
Can bureaucrats change light bulbs? Institutional constraints of energy poverty alleviation programs in Taiwan	14
Seeing more than reading:The visual mode in utilities' sustainability reports	14
Common risk factors for Latin American electric utilities	14
Spatial analysis of energy communities and energy vulnerabilities in Spain	14
Editorial Board	14
A multi-criteria model for measuring the sustainability orientation of Italian water utilities	14
Merit-order of dispatchable and variable renewable energy sources in Turkey's day-ahead electricity market	13
The impact of pollution information disclosure on household electricity consumption: Evidence from China	13
Challenges of recycled water pricing	13
Possible paths for Mexico's electricity system in the clean energy transition	13
Assessing the role of green finance in sustainable energy investments by power utilities: Evidence from China	13
Do publicly owned companies have lower district heating prices? An empirical analysis for Germany	13
Renewable R&D investments and carbon emissions in G7 countries: The mediating roles of technology and economic efficiency	13
The impact of transparency policies on local flexibility markets in electric distribution networks	13
A novel TSO settlement scheme for the Frequency Containment Reserve Cooperation in Europe’s integrated electricity market	13
Insights from the N11 economies on drivers of the clean energy transition	13
Photovoltaic project investment based on the real options method: An analysis of the East China power grid region	13
Enhancing financial efficiency and receivable collection in the water sector: Insights from structural equation modeling	13
Evidence of supply security and sustainability challenges in Nigeria’s power sector	13
Editorial Board	12
Better safe than sorry? Stated preferences and the precautionary principle for securing drinking water quality in an Italian district	12
From pragmatic to politicized? The future of water remunicipalization in the United States	12
Pragmatism as an approach for decision-making: Why two Kenyan water utilities opted for pre-paid water dispensers	12
Economics of utility-scale batteries in Romania under various market conditions	12
Techno-economic assessment of residential PV system tariff policies in Jordan	12
Alternative operational modes for Chinese PV poverty alleviation power stations: Economic impacts on stakeholders	12
Performance assessment of the Chilean water sector: A network data envelopment analysis approach	12
The status of and opportunities for utility-scale battery storage in Australia: A regulatory and market perspective	12
Rural-urban inequality in drinking water accessibility as a socioeconomic outcome in Nigeria	11
Does information intervention influence residential waste-source separation behavior?	11
Guiding electricity distribution system investments to improve service quality: A European study	11
Household acceptance of solar water heaters in South Africa: An expectancy-disconfirmation model	11
Comparing multi-criteria models for ranking the Performance of India's water supply utilities	11
Defining and measuring active distribution system operators for the electricity and natural gas sectors	11
Understanding the variability of residential energy poverty in India	11
Efficiency and productivity of renewable energy technologies: Evidence from U.S. investor-owned utilities across regional markets	11
On sharing the costs of public drinking water infrastructure renewal among users with different preferences	11
Clustered patterns of household water consumption in Portuguese municipalities: Do regional location and population trajectory matter?	10
Energy knowledge and public response to restarting nuclear plants in Japan following the fukushima accident	10
Prepaid water meters and water distribution system improvement: A case study of Jenin city, Palestine	10
Management control by municipal utilities for value creation to achieve the sustainable development goals	10
Community Energy in Germany – Bowling Alone in Elite Clubs?	10
An analysis of the interactions between daily electricity demand levels in France	10
Tariff flags and electricity consumption response in Brazil	10
Public ownership and ESG policies: implications for firm productivity in local transportation	10
The nexus between information technology and environmental pollution: Application of a new machine learning algorithm to OECD countries	10
Investment in vehicle-to-grid and distributed energy resources: Distributor versus prosumer perspectives and the impact of rate structures	10
Clean energy transition in the Turkish power sector: A techno-economic analysis with a high-resolution power expansion model	10
Does human capital complement sustainable development goals? Evidence from leading carbon emitter countries	10
Renewable energy project implementation: Will the Baltic States catch up with the Nordic countries?	10
How are public utilities responding to electricity market restructuring and the energy transition? Lessons from Israel	10
A time aggregation approach for reducing identifiability in household energy data	10
Enhancing electricity distribution efficiency in Pakistan: A framework for progress and action	10
Waste heat inconsistencies in the EU's energy legislation	10
Promoting efficient district heating in Estonia	10
Economics and policy implications of residential photovoltaic systems in Italy's developed market	10
Performance evaluation of China's photovoltaic poverty alleviation project using machine learning and satellite images	9
Collaborative governance challenges in energy efficiency and conservation: The case of Pennsylvania	9
Effects of the circular economy, environmental policy, energy transition, and geopolitical risk on sustainable electricity generation	9
Forecasting renewable energy utilization by Iran's water and wastewater industries	9
How policies affect the cost-effectiveness of residential renewable energy in Iran: A techno-economic analysis for optimization	9
Risk disclosure in sustainability reports: Empirical evidence from the energy sector	9
Editorial Board	9

Design and implementation of a competitive framework for a day-ahead demand-response program in Iran	9
Effectiveness of carbon emissions trading and renewable energy portfolio standards in the Chinese provincial and coupled electricity markets	9
Driving industrial and economic growth in Central and Eastern Europe: The role of electricity infrastructure and renewable energy	9
Digital infrastructure investment and carbon emissions reduction based on the Broadband China policy	9
Assessing eco-productivity change in Chilean municipal solid waste services	8
Analysis of hourly price granularity implementation in the Brazilian deregulated electricity contracting environment	8
Drivers and barriers to participation in Sweden's local flexibility markets for electricity	8
Impact of vehicle charging on Portugal's national electricity load profile in 2030	8
Consumer price effects of deregulated electric generation markets: The case of Ohio and the midwestern United States	8
Microgrid operation strategies considering government subsidies and user preferences based on evolutionary games	8
Water sector resilience in the United Kingdom and Ireland: The COVID-19 challenge	8
The corruption-emissions nexus: Do information and communication technologies make a difference?	8
Market design options for electricity markets with high variable renewable generation	8
Estimating production functions to determine the marginal economic value and price elasticity of water in the Chilean industrial sector	8
Structural efficiency assessment of regional airports: Lessons from India	8
Subsidized or subsidizing? Municipal drinking water service funds in California	7
Industrial electricity consumption efficiency and energy policy in Japan	7
Reversing privatization: Political distortions and performance outcomes in Buenos Aires water services	7
Endogenous and exogenous sources of efficiency in the management of Turkish airports	7
Communication strategies and consumer acceptance of utility-controlled heat pumps and electric vehicles	7
Malaysia’s electricity market structure in transition	7
Politico-economic determinants of the performance of electric cooperatives in the Philippines	7
Efficient resource utilization of the electricity distribution sector using nonparametric data envelopment analysis and influential factors	7
How demand-side management can shape electricity generation capacity planning	7
Pathways to a sustainable electricity sector in Kenya: Challenges and transformational factors	7
An experimental approach to measuring consumer preferences for water charges	7
Has benchmarking improved the performance of the Australian electricity distribution utilities? A meta-frontier model	7
Evolutionary game theory-based system dynamics modeling for community solid waste classification in China	7
Performance analytics for regulation in retail water utilities: Guiding asset management by identifying peers and targets	7
A regulatory robust conditional approach to measuring the efficiency of wholesale water supply and wastewater treatment services	7
A clustering scheme for performance benchmarking in the regulation of electric distribution utilities in Iran	7
Administrative congestion management meets electricity network regulation: Aligning incentives between the renewable generators and network operator	7
Does upgrading household consumption affect the eco-efficiency of China's solid waste management as measured by emissions?	7
Household electricity demand in Latin America and the Caribbean: A meta-analysis of price elasticity	6
Demand for grid-supplied electricity in the presence of distributed solar energy resources: Evidence from New York City	6
Institutional and contextual drivers of and barriers to incentive-based demand response: A comparative case study in the Pacific Northwest	6
Designing a local flexibility market for buying back capacity from electricity consumers connected to the distribution network	6
Determinants of water loss in Portuguese utilities	6
Private ownership of water and wastewater systems: Assessing health impacts	6
Exogenous risk assessment of a Belt-and-Road renewable energy project	6
Decentralized wastewater system practices in developing countries: A systematic review	6
A robust benchmarking of direct margin in Italy's energy retail markets	6
Circular economy in the water and wastewater sector: Tariff impact and financial performance of SMARTechs	6
Measuring the price impact of price-cap regulation among Canadian electricity distribution utilities	6
Factors affecting judicial review of regulatory appeals	6
Effective communication of time–of–use electricity tariffs: Plain and simple	6
Enlarged scars: The effects of economic policy uncertainty on electricity accessibility and urban-rural disparity	6
Pass-through in residential retail electricity competition: Evidence from Pennsylvania	6
Editorial Board	6
Household attitudes toward wastewater recycling in Saudi Arabia	6
Embedding broader values in the regulatory model: An analysis of Ofgem's consumer value proposition for the natural gas distribution sector	6
Operational concerns and solutions in smart electricity distribution systems	6
Turmoil in the Chilean electricity sector: A failed attempt at using advanced contracts for differences to support the energy transition?	6
Gauging energy poverty in developing countries with a composite metric of electricity access	6
Calculating the realized investment returns of U.S. electric utilities	6
The impact of variable renewables on price dynamics within wholesale electricity markets	6
In-state generation requirements and the acceptability of renewable portfolio standards	6
Efficiency benchmarking of Irish and North Atlantic Spanish ports: Implications for blue growth	6
Greater than the sum: On regulating innovation in electricity distribution networks with externalities	6
Does renewable energy development enhance energy security?	5
A mechanism to overcome barriers to inter-provincial power supply substitution in China	5
The diffusion of the utility tunnel policy: Evidence from Chinese cities	5
Does the payment vehicle matter for valuing improved electricity reliability? A discrete choice experiment in Ethiopia	5
Financial inclusion and energy poverty reduction in sub-Saharan Africa	5
Household water bill perception in Brazil	5
A system dynamics model of the investment capacity of China's power grid under the third regulatory cycle of transmission and distribution tariff reform	5
Generative literature analysis on the rise of prosumers and their influence on the sustainable energy transition	5
Exploring customer satisfaction in Great Britain's retail energy sector Part I: The comparative use of Trustpilot online reviews in four sectors	5
Drivers of district heating's dominance in Sweden's urban areas: A historical perspective	5
Policy and legal frameworks for underground natural gas storage in Iran	5
Retraction notice to Modified teaching-learning-based optimization by orthogonal learning for optimal design of an electric vehicle charging station [Utilities Policy 72 (2021) 101253]	5
On the role of water utility governance for climate resilience: A Corporate Social Responsibility Directive approach	5
Forecasting short-term electricity load using hybrid support vector regression with grey catastrophe and random forest modeling	5
Dynamics and regional heterogeneity in the generation efficiency of Japan's photovoltaic power plants focusing on new market entrants	5
Techno-economic analysis of a hybrid photovoltaic-wind-biomass-battery system for off-grid power in rural Guatemala	5
Human resource training to implement transmission schemes for renewable power evacuation in India	5
Effect of electricity price reform on households’ electricity consumption in urban Ethiopia	5
Evolution of the EU legal framework for promoting RES-E: A market compatible paradigm shift?	5
Water for daily life: Estimating basic household water needs in Lima and Quito	5
IoT implementation for energy system sustainability: The role of actors and related challenges	5
The rhetoric of community participation in urban South African water governance	5
Sustainability disclosure and reporting by municipally owned water utilities	5
Institutional diversity and safe drinking water provision in the United States	5
Real-life resilience: Exploring the organisational environment of international water utilities	5
Stakeholder interaction in the digital transformation of China's electric power sector: An evolutionary game model	5
Organizational models for the decommissioning of nuclear power plants: Lessons from the United Kingdom and the United States	5
Editorial Board	5
Multilevel governance, PV solar energy, and entrepreneurship: the generation of green hydrogen as a fuel of renewable origin	5
Determining factors affecting customer satisfaction of the national electric power company (MERALCO) during the COVID-19 pandemic in the Phillippines	5
Data integration in asset management of municipal pipe networks in Sweden: Challenges, gaps, and potential drivers	5
Can financial literacy Ease energy poverty? Some Lessons at the household level in China	5
Dynamic demand response to electricity prices: Evidence from the Spanish retail market	5
The digital economy and energy poverty in Central and Eastern Europe	5
Wholesale electricity market economics of solar generation in Israel	5
Public utility ownership and in-kind trade policy in vertically related markets	5