Utilities Policy

Article	Citations
Ways to promote investments in sustainable energy utilities in the central Asian regional economic cooperation program region	212
Legislative reforms and market dynamics in the provision of urban water service by private contract operators in Spain	143
How do European Union electric utilities contribute to the Sustainable Development Goals? Empirical insights on reporting and management control practices	112
Convergence dynamics of urban and rural electricity access rates across African countries	76
An overview of Brazil's electricity market: Planning, dispatch models, pricing, and modernization	76
Editorial Board	73
Assessing the effect of increasing block tariffs for residential natural gas in Hefei City, China	67
Excess demand or excess supply? A comparison of renewable energy certificate markets in the United Kingdom and Australia	66
Designing circular economy-compliant municipal solid waste management charging schemes	62
Opportunities and challenges for small-scale flexibility in European electricity markets	59
Assessing the relationship between electricity theft and customer payment habits: A machine-learning approach	57
Addressing low-quality electricity service for low-income consumers: Empirical evidence from Brazil	56
Evaluation of the multi-dimensional growth potential of China's public charging facilities for electric vehicles through 2030	53
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	53
Navigating the transition: The impacts of electricity tariff regulation on distributed generation in Brazil	53
Household access to the public electricity grid in Cameroon: Analysis of connection determinants	49
Outage-induced power backup choice in Pakistan	49
Feasibility analysis of implementing an On Bill Financing program to promote energy-efficiency in Dubai-UAE	49
Exploratory analysis of the water governance frameworks regarding the OECD principles in two river basins in Brazil and Portugal	47
Good governance and energy justice: Pathways to human development	42
Reinventing European air traffic control based on the covid-19 pandemic experience	40
Household energy poverty and personal time allocation: Empirical evidence from China	39
A mixed-method analysis of New Zealand's smart meter rollout experience	38
Inflation effects of oil and gas prices in the UK: Symmetries and asymmetries	37
Development and application of regional urban water security indicators	35

Technological innovation and energy efficiency in central Eastern European countries	34
Assessing the integration of planning instruments for urban land use and water service	34
A system dynamics framework to formulate energy policies for sustainable development in Ethiopia	33
Characterizing flexibility in power markets and systems	33
An integrated model for electricity market coupling simulations: Evidence from the European power market crossroad	32
The electrification-social development nexus in Bangladesh: Do governmental policies matter?	32
A fair grid connection cost-sharing model for electricity based on the random forest machine learning method	32
Cybersecurity and resilience in the swiss electricity sector: Status and policy options	32
Energy resource productivity and environmental quality: A quantile-on-quantile study of Latin America from 1990 to 2022	31
Is more competition better? Retail electricity prices and switching rates in the European Union	29
Subnational perspectives on energy transition pathways for Mexico's electricity grid	29
Transforming marginal-cost pricing: A blockchain approach to fundamental energy system dynamics	29
The effect of temperatures on household electricity consumption in northern China: Evidence from smart meters	28
Service quality performance indicators for electricity distribution in Brazil	28
An experiment in own-price elasticity estimation for non-residential electricity demand in the U.S.	27
Is it all about supply? Demand-side effects on the Spanish electricity market following Covid-19 lockdown policies	27
A sustainability assessment of decentralized water supply systems in Bandung City, Indonesia	27
Editorial Board	26
Urban broadband infrastructure and green total-factor energy efficiency in China	25
Factors influencing residential water consumption in Wallonia, Belgium	25
Comparative analysis of energy poverty definition and measurement in Portugal and Spain	25
Screening for collusion in wholesale electricity markets: A literature review	24
Renewable energy communities and the ecological transition: A game theoretic bargaining approach	24
A case study of financing zero-emission power-to-gas technologies in Spain	23
The distributional effects of rural electrification on household welfare: Evidence from Senegal	23
Forecasting of Türkiye's net electricity consumption with metaheuristic algorithms	23
Editorial Board	23
Influence of population mobility on electricity consumption in seven U.S. cities during the COVID-19 pandemic	22
Improving asset management in capital-intensive industries: Case study of a Portuguese water utility	22
Customer complaint management and smart technology adoption by community water systems	21
Asymmetric impact of green bonds on energy efficiency: Fresh evidence from quantile estimation	21
Transition to greener electricity and resource use impact on environmental quality: Policy based study from OECD countries	21
Does district heating affect residential property prices? Case study of an urban area in South Korea	20
Incorporating nonrevenue water in the efficiency assessment of water supply utilities: A parametric enhanced hyperbolic distance function	20
Open Water: Impacts of Retail Competition on Service Performance and Water-Use Efficiency in England	20
Estimating stranded coal assets in China's power sector	20
Determinants of financial performance and sustainability in Namibia's electricity distribution sector	20
Electricity system resilience: An integrated bibliometric and systematic literature review	20
Assessing water conservation behaviour of India's urban households	19
A lifecycle-based indicator to support residual solid waste flow planning at the regional level	19
Socioeconomic drivers of residential electricity expenditures in India	18
Detection of unauthorized consumption in water supply systems: A case study using logistic regression	18
Water poverty in a ‘Hydro Nation’: Exploring distributional and recognitional water injustice in Scotland	18
Modelling features and outcomes of Brazil's electricity tariff flag program	18
Waste management, quality of life and natural resources utilization matter for renewable electricity generation: The main and moderate role of environmental policy	18
Regulating electricity spot markets during extreme events: The 2021 Texas case	18
Environmental benefits of energy poverty alleviation, renewable resources, and urbanization in North Africa	17
Solving electric power distribution uncertainty using deep learning and incentive-based demand response	17
No-queue road pricing: A comprehensive policy instrument for Europe?	17
Assessing the public-private partnership handover: Experience from China's water sector	17

Payback of natural gas turbines: A retrospective analysis with implications for decarbonizing grids	17
Drivers of mobile broadband pricing: Cross-national evidence on policy and market dynamics	17
Regulatory analysis of E-mobility for Brazil: A comparative review and outlook	17
China's textbook approach to regulatory reform of the natural gas market	16
Network optimization and deployment for carbon capture and storage in China's coal-fired power plants	16
New avenues for community solar adoption research: A qualitative comparative analysis of ten U.S. states	16
Integrating demand forecasting and deep reinforcement learning for real-time electric vehicle charging price optimization	16
Multi-criteria decision support: A case study of Southeast Europe power systems	16
Management efficiency of Chinese toll road operating companies and influencing factors	16
Editorial Board	16
Are Brazilian water auction prices affordable for vulnerable families?	16
A note on hydropower as a marginal price setter for Spain's electricity market in 2021–2022	15
Can bureaucrats change light bulbs? Institutional constraints of energy poverty alleviation programs in Taiwan	15
Measuring energy poverty by estimating the income elasticity of energy demand: An application to Kazakhstan	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
Impact of Spanish renewable support scheme reforms on the revenues of photovoltaic power plants	14
Efficiency of water service management alternatives in Spain considering environmental factors	14
A multi-criteria model for measuring the sustainability orientation of Italian water utilities	14
A data-driven approach to reduce electricity theft in developing countries	14
Water democracy under European Union law: Requiring participatory services management	14
Seeing more than reading:The visual mode in utilities' sustainability reports	14
Spatial analysis of energy communities and energy vulnerabilities in Spain	14
Transition mapping for modern energy service provision under uncertainty: A case study from Brazil	14
Motivating residents to save water based on the model of goal-directed behavior: Evidence from China	13
Possible paths for Mexico's electricity system in the clean energy transition	13
Enhancing financial efficiency and receivable collection in the water sector: Insights from structural equation modeling	13
The impact of transparency policies on local flexibility markets in electric distribution networks	13
Editorial Board	13
Is cognition of residential tiered pricing policy effective in reducing electricity consumption in China?	13
A novel TSO settlement scheme for the Frequency Containment Reserve Cooperation in Europe’s integrated electricity market	13
The evolution of competitiveness in the Chilean mobile market	13
A SWOT analysis for the evolution of Brazil’s renewable energy sector	13
Common risk factors for Latin American electric utilities	13
The impact of pollution information disclosure on household electricity consumption: 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	12
Photovoltaic project investment based on the real options method: An analysis of the East China power grid region	12
Merit-order of dispatchable and variable renewable energy sources in Turkey's day-ahead electricity market	12
Insights from the N11 economies on drivers of the clean energy transition	11
Household acceptance of solar water heaters in South Africa: An expectancy-disconfirmation model	11
Guiding electricity distribution system investments to improve service quality: A European study	11
Economics of utility-scale batteries in Romania under various market conditions	11
Defining and measuring active distribution system operators for the electricity and natural gas sectors	11
Challenges of recycled water pricing	11
Internalizing CO2 emissions in Spanish port efficiency analysis: A stochastic frontier approach with policy insights	11
Does information intervention influence residential waste-source separation behavior?	11
Assessing the role of green finance in sustainable energy investments by power utilities: Evidence from China	11
Evidence of supply security and sustainability challenges in Nigeria’s power sector	11
Techno-economic assessment of residential PV system tariff policies in Jordan	11
Comparing multi-criteria models for ranking the Performance of India's water supply utilities	11
On sharing the costs of public drinking water infrastructure renewal among users with different preferences	10
Public ownership and ESG policies: implications for firm productivity in local transportation	10
Alternative operational modes for Chinese PV poverty alleviation power stations: Economic impacts on stakeholders	10
Efficiency and productivity of renewable energy technologies: Evidence from U.S. investor-owned utilities across regional markets	10
Editorial Board	10
Rural-urban inequality in drinking water accessibility as a socioeconomic outcome in Nigeria	10
Modeling the impact of electric vehicle charging on Lisbon's electricity distribution network	10
Better safe than sorry? Stated preferences and the precautionary principle for securing drinking water quality in an Italian district	10
Pragmatism as an approach for decision-making: Why two Kenyan water utilities opted for pre-paid water dispensers	10
Understanding the variability of residential energy poverty in India	10
Rethinking electricity demand-side response: Relational approaches to the challenge of residential flexibility in Italy	10
Clean energy transition in the Turkish power sector: A techno-economic analysis with a high-resolution power expansion model	9
The status of and opportunities for utility-scale battery storage in Australia: A regulatory and market perspective	9
Tariff flags and electricity consumption response in Brazil	9
A time aggregation approach for reducing identifiability in household energy data	9
Waste heat inconsistencies in the EU's energy legislation	9
Collaborative governance challenges in energy efficiency and conservation: The case of Pennsylvania	9
Prepaid water meters and water distribution system improvement: A case study of Jenin city, Palestine	9
Enhancing electricity distribution efficiency in Pakistan: A framework for progress and action	9
Performance assessment of the Chilean water sector: A network data envelopment analysis approach	9
Management control by municipal utilities for value creation to achieve the sustainable development goals	9
Investment in vehicle-to-grid and distributed energy resources: Distributor versus prosumer perspectives and the impact of rate structures	9
Does human capital complement sustainable development goals? Evidence from leading carbon emitter countries	9
Driving industrial and economic growth in Central and Eastern Europe: The role of electricity infrastructure and renewable energy	9
How are public utilities responding to electricity market restructuring and the energy transition? Lessons from Israel	9
Energy knowledge and public response to restarting nuclear plants in Japan following the fukushima accident	9
Implementing energy sharing in energy communities: A comparative legal analysis of Austria and Flanders	9
Clustered patterns of household water consumption in Portuguese municipalities: Do regional location and population trajectory matter?	9
Digital infrastructure investment and carbon emissions reduction based on the Broadband China policy	9

An analysis of the interactions between daily electricity demand levels in France	9
Promoting efficient district heating in Estonia	8
Effects of the circular economy, environmental policy, energy transition, and geopolitical risk on sustainable electricity generation	8
Local willingness to fund climate-resilient water utilities in a tourism-dependent region of Indonesia	8
Risk disclosure in sustainability reports: Empirical evidence from the energy sector	8
Economics and policy implications of residential photovoltaic systems in Italy's developed market	8
Estimating production functions to determine the marginal economic value and price elasticity of water in the Chilean industrial sector	8
Analysis of hourly price granularity implementation in the Brazilian deregulated electricity contracting environment	8
Renewable energy project implementation: Will the Baltic States catch up with the Nordic countries?	8
Renewable energy investment in China's new demonstration cities: A quasi-natural experiment	8
Microgrid operation strategies considering government subsidies and user preferences based on evolutionary games	8
The impact of the delegated management model of urban piped service delivery on water quality in Kisumu, Kenya	8
Local flexibility markets based on grid segmentation	8
Water sector resilience in the United Kingdom and Ireland: The COVID-19 challenge	7
Structural efficiency assessment of regional airports: Lessons from India	7
Drivers and barriers to participation in Sweden's local flexibility markets for electricity	7
Effectiveness of carbon emissions trading and renewable energy portfolio standards in the Chinese provincial and coupled electricity markets	7
Impact of vehicle charging on Portugal's national electricity load profile in 2030	7
Administrative congestion management meets electricity network regulation: Aligning incentives between the renewable generators and network operator	7
An experimental approach to measuring consumer preferences for water charges	7
Evolutionary game theory-based system dynamics modeling for community solid waste classification in China	7
Communication strategies and consumer acceptance of utility-controlled heat pumps and electric vehicles	7
Market design options for electricity markets with high variable renewable generation	7
Forecasting renewable energy utilization by Iran's water and wastewater industries	7
Design and implementation of a competitive framework for a day-ahead demand-response program in Iran	7
Performance evaluation of China's photovoltaic poverty alleviation project using machine learning and satellite images	7
Politico-economic determinants of the performance of electric cooperatives in the Philippines	7
Pathways to a sustainable electricity sector in Kenya: Challenges and transformational factors	7
Has benchmarking improved the performance of the Australian electricity distribution utilities? A meta-frontier model	7
How demand-side management can shape electricity generation capacity planning	7
Efficient resource utilization of the electricity distribution sector using nonparametric data envelopment analysis and influential factors	7
Consumer price effects of deregulated electric generation markets: The case of Ohio and the midwestern United States	7
Editorial Board	7
Assessing eco-productivity change in Chilean municipal solid waste services	7
A regulatory robust conditional approach to measuring the efficiency of wholesale water supply and wastewater treatment services	7
Pricing and sharing rules for energy communities	7
Subsidized or subsidizing? Municipal drinking water service funds in California	7
Does upgrading household consumption affect the eco-efficiency of China's solid waste management as measured by emissions?	7
Household attitudes toward wastewater recycling in Saudi Arabia	6
Modeling the impact of price and usage efficiency on domestic water demand in Saudi Arabia	6
A robust benchmarking of direct margin in Italy's energy retail markets	6
Industrial electricity consumption efficiency and energy policy in Japan	6
Household electricity demand in Latin America and the Caribbean: A meta-analysis of price elasticity	6
Calculating the realized investment returns of U.S. electric utilities	6
Private ownership of water and wastewater systems: Assessing health impacts	6
Enlarged scars: The effects of economic policy uncertainty on electricity accessibility and urban-rural disparity	6
Demand for grid-supplied electricity in the presence of distributed solar energy resources: Evidence from New York City	6
Editorial Board	6
Greater than the sum: On regulating innovation in electricity distribution networks with externalities	6
Circular economy in the water and wastewater sector: Tariff impact and financial performance of SMARTechs	6
Performance analytics for regulation in retail water utilities: Guiding asset management by identifying peers and targets	6
Reversing privatization: Political distortions and performance outcomes in Buenos Aires water services	6
Endogenous and exogenous sources of efficiency in the management of Turkish airports	6
Stakeholder interaction in the digital transformation of China's electric power sector: An evolutionary game model	6
Exogenous risk assessment of a Belt-and-Road renewable energy project	6
Institutional and contextual drivers of and barriers to incentive-based demand response: A comparative case study in the Pacific Northwest	6
Operational efficiency and service quality of Indian electricity distribution utilities: A three-stage DEA and Malmquist Index analysis	6
In-state generation requirements and the acceptability of renewable portfolio standards	6
Market share, plant ownership, and the merit-order effect of renewable resources: Evidence from Australia’s National Electricity Market	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
A clustering scheme for performance benchmarking in the regulation of electric distribution utilities in Iran	6
Decentralized wastewater system practices in developing countries: A systematic review	6
Turmoil in the Chilean electricity sector: A failed attempt at using advanced contracts for differences to support the energy transition?	6
The impact of variable renewables on price dynamics within wholesale electricity markets	6
Determinants of water loss in Portuguese utilities	6
Pass-through in residential retail electricity competition: Evidence from Pennsylvania	6
Financial inclusion and energy poverty reduction in sub-Saharan Africa	5
Gauging energy poverty in developing countries with a composite metric of electricity access	5
Generative literature analysis on the rise of prosumers and their influence on the sustainable energy transition	5
Household water bill perception in Brazil	5
Organizational models for the decommissioning of nuclear power plants: Lessons from the United Kingdom and the United States	5
Policy and legal frameworks for underground natural gas storage in Iran	5
Alternative tariff structures and household composition: Evidence from Spain's Valencia region	5
Effect of electricity price reform on households’ electricity consumption in urban Ethiopia	5
Multilevel governance, PV solar energy, and entrepreneurship: the generation of green hydrogen as a fuel of renewable origin	5
The digital economy and energy poverty in Central and Eastern Europe	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
Forecasting short-term electricity load using hybrid support vector regression with grey catastrophe and random forest modeling	5
How environmental policy stringency affects renewable energy investment? Implications for green investment horizons	5
Techno-economic analysis of a hybrid photovoltaic-wind-biomass-battery system for off-grid power in rural Guatemala	5
Can financial literacy Ease energy poverty? Some Lessons at the household level in China	5
Human resource training to implement transmission schemes for renewable power evacuation in India	5
Exploring customer satisfaction in Great Britain's retail energy sector Part I: The comparative use of Trustpilot online reviews in four sectors	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
Data integration in asset management of municipal pipe networks in Sweden: Challenges, gaps, and potential drivers	5
Evolution of the EU legal framework for promoting RES-E: A market compatible paradigm shift?	5
Does renewable energy development enhance energy security?	5
Effective communication of time–of–use electricity tariffs: Plain and simple	5
A mechanism to overcome barriers to inter-provincial power supply substitution in China	5
Editorial Board	5
A multi-period, multi-criteria model for dynamic performance assessment of the Portuguese water sector	5
Determining factors affecting customer satisfaction of the national electric power company (MERALCO) during the COVID-19 pandemic in the Phillippines	5
The rhetoric of community participation in urban South African water governance	5
Water for daily life: Estimating basic household water needs in Lima and Quito	5