Utilities Policy

Article	Citations
Editorial Board	304
Bottled water or filtered tap water? A nexus-based sustainability assessment for Qatar	120
Ways to promote investments in sustainable energy utilities in the central Asian regional economic cooperation program region	96
Excess demand or excess supply? A comparison of renewable energy certificate markets in the United Kingdom and Australia	88
An overview of Brazil's electricity market: Planning, dispatch models, pricing, and modernization	88
How do European Union electric utilities contribute to the Sustainable Development Goals? Empirical insights on reporting and management control practices	81
Command and control: A systematic approach to demand-side flexibility	76
Designing circular economy-compliant municipal solid waste management charging schemes	76
Agent-based modeling to assess the effects of time-of-use water tariffs on social equity	72
Macroeconomic benefits of integrating industrial waste heat in district heating networks	65
Political cycles in Chinese urban water tariff adjustment	64
Convergence dynamics of urban and rural electricity access rates across African countries	63
Assessing the effect of increasing block tariffs for residential natural gas in Hefei City, China	63
Assessing the relationship between electricity theft and customer payment habits: A machine-learning approach	62
Opportunities and challenges for small-scale flexibility in European electricity markets	62
Addressing low-quality electricity service for low-income consumers: Empirical evidence from Brazil	59
Exploratory analysis of the water governance frameworks regarding the OECD principles in two river basins in Brazil and Portugal	57
Feasibility analysis of implementing an On Bill Financing program to promote energy-efficiency in Dubai-UAE	56
Good governance and energy justice: Pathways to human development	54
Navigating the transition: The impacts of electricity tariff regulation on distributed generation in Brazil	53
Outage-induced power backup choice in Pakistan	53
Household energy poverty and personal time allocation: Empirical evidence from China	51
The impact of the Russia–Ukraine war on European electricity mix: Evidence from a difference-in-differences approach	51
Household access to the public electricity grid in Cameroon: Analysis of connection determinants	49
Measuring energy poverty in Argentina: The relevance of regional disparities and policies	48

An integrated model for electricity market coupling simulations: Evidence from the European power market crossroad	44
Is China's energy transition pace driven by the supply-side or the demand-side?	44
A fair grid connection cost-sharing model for electricity based on the random forest machine learning method	40
Editorial Board	39
The electrification-social development nexus in Bangladesh: Do governmental policies matter?	37
Assessing the integration of planning instruments for urban land use and water service	36
A system dynamics framework to formulate energy policies for sustainable development in Ethiopia	36
Inflation effects of oil and gas prices in the UK: Symmetries and asymmetries	34
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	31
Development and application of regional urban water security indicators	31
Making energy democracy work: Governing local conflicts in Germany's Energiewende	31
Technological innovation and energy efficiency in central Eastern European countries	31
Is it all about supply? Demand-side effects on the Spanish electricity market following Covid-19 lockdown policies	29
Editorial Board	29
Policy and regulatory challenges in decentralised renewable energy deployment: Case studies from Nigeria, Liberia, and Malawi	29
An experiment in own-price elasticity estimation for non-residential electricity demand in the U.S.	29
Financial statement comparability and earnings management under alternative standards: A study of Brazilian electrification cooperatives	28
Service quality performance indicators for electricity distribution in Brazil	28
Subsidizing solar energy in Indonesia: Evaluating the fossil fuel depletion premium as a revenue-neutral policy tool	28
Techno-economic optimization of PV-battery systems in five Australian states	28
Transforming marginal-cost pricing: A blockchain approach to fundamental energy system dynamics	28
The effect of temperatures on household electricity consumption in northern China: Evidence from smart meters	27
Identifying and mitigating cybersecurity risks in residential demand response for smart grids in Sub-Saharan Africa	27
Effects of renewable portfolio standards obligation distribution: Equilibrium analysis of supply side vs. demand side in power supply chain networks	26
Urban broadband infrastructure and green total-factor energy efficiency in China	26
Utilities policy for the energy transition: A panel data analysis of wind and solar penetration in the EU	26
Is more competition better? Retail electricity prices and switching rates in the European Union	25
Comparative analysis of energy poverty definition and measurement in Portugal and Spain	25
Energy resource productivity and environmental quality: A quantile-on-quantile study of Latin America from 1990 to 2022	25
Renewable energy communities and the ecological transition: A game theoretic bargaining approach	25
Editorial Board	24
Evolution of smart grid cybersecurity: toward a systematic framework for collaborative and sustainable development	24
Screening for collusion in wholesale electricity markets: A literature review	24
Subnational perspectives on energy transition pathways for Mexico's electricity grid	24
Determinants of financial performance and sustainability in Namibia's electricity distribution sector	23
Beyond coverage: Unveiling income and spatial inequalities in access to water and sanitation services in Chile	23
Regulating electricity spot markets during extreme events: The 2021 Texas case	23
Open Water: Impacts of Retail Competition on Service Performance and Water-Use Efficiency in England	23
Editorial Board	23
Customer complaint management and smart technology adoption by community water systems	22
A lifecycle-based indicator to support residual solid waste flow planning at the regional level	22
Detection of unauthorized consumption in water supply systems: A case study using logistic regression	22
Does district heating affect residential property prices? Case study of an urban area in South Korea	22
Influence of population mobility on electricity consumption in seven U.S. cities during the COVID-19 pandemic	21
Electricity system resilience: An integrated bibliometric and systematic literature review	21
A case study of financing zero-emission power-to-gas technologies in Spain	21
Incorporating nonrevenue water in the efficiency assessment of water supply utilities: A parametric enhanced hyperbolic distance function	21
Asymmetric impact of green bonds on energy efficiency: Fresh evidence from quantile estimation	20
Forecasting of Türkiye's net electricity consumption with metaheuristic algorithms	20

Assessing water conservation behaviour of India's urban households	20
Integrated PSO-MILP water–energy planning and operation under flexibility constraints and water scarcity: Application to an off-grid Mediterranean island	19
Price signals and distributed solar adoption under net metering: Evidence from Brazil	19
The 2025 Iberian Peninsula blackout: Lessons for modern power systems and policy implications	19
A game-theoretic framework for cluster-based dynamic electricity pricing in high-penetration renewable networks	19
The distributional effects of rural electrification on household welfare: Evidence from Senegal	18
Improving asset management in capital-intensive industries: Case study of a Portuguese water utility	18
Policy note: Mobilising private capital for European grids	18
Editorial Board	17
Transition to greener electricity and resource use impact on environmental quality: Policy based study from OECD countries	17
Drivers of mobile broadband pricing: Cross-national evidence on policy and market dynamics	17
Regulatory pathways to a net-zero electricity system in Alberta	17
Modelling features and outcomes of Brazil's electricity tariff flag program	17
Socioeconomic drivers of residential electricity expenditures in India	16
Solving electric power distribution uncertainty using deep learning and incentive-based demand response	16
Assessing the public-private partnership handover: Experience from China's water sector	16
No-queue road pricing: A comprehensive policy instrument for Europe?	16
Income elasticity of electricity demand in the context of Portugal’s energy transition	16
New avenues for community solar adoption research: A qualitative comparative analysis of ten U.S. states	16
Regulatory analysis of E-mobility for Brazil: A comparative review and outlook	15
Management efficiency of Chinese toll road operating companies and influencing factors	15
Governance and market dynamics of P2P energy trading: Enhancing national strategies in Malaysia and Thailand	15
Are Brazilian water auction prices affordable for vulnerable families?	15
A note on hydropower as a marginal price setter for Spain's electricity market in 2021–2022	15
Impact of Spanish renewable support scheme reforms on the revenues of photovoltaic power plants	15
Environmental benefits of energy poverty alleviation, renewable resources, and urbanization in North Africa	15
Water poverty in a ‘Hydro Nation’: Exploring distributional and recognitional water injustice in Scotland	15
Integrating demand forecasting and deep reinforcement learning for real-time electric vehicle charging price optimization	15
Energy citizenship in northern Ghana: drivers of community engagement in the sustainable energy transitions	15
Water democracy under European Union law: Requiring participatory services management	15
Waste management, quality of life and natural resources utilization matter for renewable electricity generation: The main and moderate role of environmental policy	15
Network optimization and deployment for carbon capture and storage in China's coal-fired power plants	15
Seeing more than reading:The visual mode in utilities' sustainability reports	15
Can bureaucrats change light bulbs? Institutional constraints of energy poverty alleviation programs in Taiwan	15
Efficiency of water service management alternatives in Spain considering environmental factors	14
Measuring energy poverty by estimating the income elasticity of energy demand: An application to Kazakhstan	14
A multi-criteria model for measuring the sustainability orientation of Italian water utilities	14
Efficient firms are all alike, but every inefficient firm is such in its own way: Heterogeneity of costs determinants in the Italian water sector	14
Transition mapping for modern energy service provision under uncertainty: A case study from Brazil	14
Agent-based modeling of residential photovoltaic adoption and diffusion: Implications for energy policy design	13
Evidence of supply security and sustainability challenges in Nigeria’s power sector	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
Addressing imbalanced data and feature engineering for abnormal water consumption detection with machine learning models	13
The impact of transparency policies on local flexibility markets in electric distribution networks	13
Editorial Board	13
Spatial analysis of energy communities and energy vulnerabilities in Spain	13
When does privatization of distribution utilities’ management reduce electricity losses? Evidence from Rajasthan, India	13
Common risk factors for Latin American electric utilities	13
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	12
Merit-order of dispatchable and variable renewable energy sources in Turkey's day-ahead electricity market	12
Renewable R&D investments and carbon emissions in G7 countries: The mediating roles of technology and economic efficiency	12
Enhancing financial efficiency and receivable collection in the water sector: Insights from structural equation modeling	12
Challenges of recycled water pricing	12
Corporate transitioning to electric vehicle fleets: charging tariffs, total cost of ownership, and the potential for load flexibility	12
The evolution of competitiveness in the Chilean mobile market	12
Insights from the N11 economies on drivers of the clean energy transition	12
Is cognition of residential tiered pricing policy effective in reducing electricity consumption in China?	12
A SWOT analysis for the evolution of Brazil’s renewable energy sector	12
Enhancing energy transition in Egypt: The roles of water resources and digitalization	12
Photovoltaic project investment based on the real options method: An analysis of the East China power grid region	12
Efficiency and market power analysis of alternative reserve market design proposals: a case study of Greece	12
A novel TSO settlement scheme for the Frequency Containment Reserve Cooperation in Europe’s integrated electricity market	11
An assessment of the techno-economic viability of rooftop residential solar photovoltaic systems in Canada and U.S. cities with similar solar irradiation	11
Editorial Board	11
Public ownership and ESG policies: implications for firm productivity in local transportation	11
The impact of pollution information disclosure on household electricity consumption: Evidence from China	11
Modeling the impact of electric vehicle charging on Lisbon's electricity distribution network	11
Pragmatism as an approach for decision-making: Why two Kenyan water utilities opted for pre-paid water dispensers	11
Economics of utility-scale batteries in Romania under various market conditions	11
Sustainability reporting across religious-ethical traditions: A sociology of Worth perspective on UK and Italian water utilities	11
Rural-urban inequality in drinking water accessibility as a socioeconomic outcome in Nigeria	11
Enhancing electricity distribution efficiency in Pakistan: A framework for progress and action	11
Alternative operational modes for Chinese PV poverty alleviation power stations: Economic impacts on stakeholders	11
Efficiency and productivity of renewable energy technologies: Evidence from U.S. investor-owned utilities across regional markets	10
Optimal energy management system for a community microgrid: A case study from the Gambia	10
Editorial Board	10
Techno-economic assessment of residential PV system tariff policies in Jordan	10
Household acceptance of solar water heaters in South Africa: An expectancy-disconfirmation model	10

On sharing the costs of public drinking water infrastructure renewal among users with different preferences	10
Retail electricity markets in Europe: Taking stock, looking ahead	10
Does information intervention influence residential waste-source separation behavior?	10
Comparing multi-criteria models for ranking the Performance of India's water supply utilities	10
Internalizing CO2 emissions in Spanish port efficiency analysis: A stochastic frontier approach with policy insights	10
Defining and measuring active distribution system operators for the electricity and natural gas sectors	10
How are public utilities responding to electricity market restructuring and the energy transition? Lessons from Israel	10
Rethinking electricity demand-side response: Relational approaches to the challenge of residential flexibility in Italy	10
Public willingness-to-pay for electricity from domestic pumped-storage hydropower facilities: Evidence from South Korea	10
Shaping electricity end-user behaviour for demand response using the COM-B model	10
Understanding the variability of residential energy poverty in India	10
Guiding electricity distribution system investments to improve service quality: A European study	10
The intertemporal unfairness of the feed-in tariff scheme in the United Kingdom: Catching up across regions	9
Clean energy transition in the Turkish power sector: A techno-economic analysis with a high-resolution power expansion model	9
Implementing energy sharing in energy communities: A comparative legal analysis of Austria and Flanders	9
Energy sharing within Dutch energy communities: An institutional analysis using Ostrom's design principles	9
A bi-level multi-objective optimization model for cross-provincial transfer fees to promote cooperation in renewable energy consumption	9
Investment in vehicle-to-grid and distributed energy resources: Distributor versus prosumer perspectives and the impact of rate structures	9
Toward a human-centered energy transition: Concepts, models, challenges, and research opportunities	9
Unlocking clean energy transitions in developing countries: A robust policy mix exploration for Mexico	9
Scalable fairness shaping with LLM-guided multi-agent reinforcement learning for peer-to-peer electricity markets	9
Does human capital complement sustainable development goals? Evidence from leading carbon emitter countries	9
Prepaid water meters and water distribution system improvement: A case study of Jenin city, Palestine	9
Tariff flags and electricity consumption response in Brazil	9
Management control by municipal utilities for value creation to achieve the sustainable development goals	9
Waste heat inconsistencies in the EU's energy legislation	9
Policy assessment platform for the colombian electricity transition by 2050	9
Replacing conventional energy resources with wind: An integrated economic, environmental, and social assessment	9
Clustered patterns of household water consumption in Portuguese municipalities: Do regional location and population trajectory matter?	9
Energy knowledge and public response to restarting nuclear plants in Japan following the fukushima accident	9
A time aggregation approach for reducing identifiability in household energy data	9
Renewable energy project implementation: Will the Baltic States catch up with the Nordic countries?	8
Local willingness to fund climate-resilient water utilities in a tourism-dependent region of Indonesia	8
Economics and policy implications of residential photovoltaic systems in Italy's developed market	8
Microgrid operation strategies considering government subsidies and user preferences based on evolutionary games	8
Analysis of hourly price granularity implementation in the Brazilian deregulated electricity contracting environment	8
Prediction of energy consumption and carbon emission in Yunnan Province based on LEAP modeling	8
Policy-driven geothermal expansion in Türkiye: Technological and regulatory insights from the Kızıldere field	8
A regulatory robust conditional approach to measuring the efficiency of wholesale water supply and wastewater treatment services	8
Estimating production functions to determine the marginal economic value and price elasticity of water in the Chilean industrial sector	8
Analysis of the effect of wealth taxes in overcoming the Jevons paradox	8
Driving industrial and economic growth in Central and Eastern Europe: The role of electricity infrastructure and renewable energy	8
Effects of the circular economy, environmental policy, energy transition, and geopolitical risk on sustainable electricity generation	8
The impact of the delegated management model of urban piped service delivery on water quality in Kisumu, Kenya	8
Renewable energy investment in China's new demonstration cities: A quasi-natural experiment	8
Consumer price effects of deregulated electric generation markets: The case of Ohio and the midwestern United States	8
Drivers and barriers to participation in Sweden's local flexibility markets for electricity	8
Structural efficiency assessment of regional airports: Lessons from India	8
European funding, national decisions, and electricity grid investments	8
Reshaping tap water's brand image in the new media era: decision-support analysis based on social media and sustainable development priorities	8
Forecasting renewable energy utilization by Iran's water and wastewater industries	8
Design and implementation of a competitive framework for a day-ahead demand-response program in Iran	8
Local flexibility markets based on grid segmentation	8
European and US approaches to energy poverty: Classifying and evaluating design strategies	8
Collaborative governance challenges in energy efficiency and conservation: The case of Pennsylvania	8
Electricity market design for power system reliability: Lessons for South Africa	8
Water sector resilience in the United Kingdom and Ireland: The COVID-19 challenge	8
Positive or negative? A study on the synergistic effectiveness of policy interventions on residential waste minimization behavior in China	8
Assessing eco-productivity change in Chilean municipal solid waste services	8
The sustainable economic growth implications of expanding the electricity network: can early investment reduce consumer costs and support greater GDP and jobs gains?	8
Reliability, functionality, and governance of community-managed rural water points in Ginir district, Ethiopia	8
Digital infrastructure investment and carbon emissions reduction based on the Broadband China policy	8
Effectiveness of carbon emissions trading and renewable energy portfolio standards in the Chinese provincial and coupled electricity markets	8
Risk disclosure in sustainability reports: Empirical evidence from the energy sector	8
Decision-making by power generators with alternative carbon allowance trading pathways: A case study of China	8
Appraising spatial inequalities in urban water access in African cities by means of GIS clustering: insights from Malabo, Equatorial Guinea	7
Administrative congestion management meets electricity network regulation: Aligning incentives between the renewable generators and network operator	7
Reversing privatization: Political distortions and performance outcomes in Buenos Aires water services	7
Pricing and sharing rules for energy communities	7
A framework for updating the regulation of isolated power systems in light of the energy transition imperative: The case of Chile	7
Market share, plant ownership, and the merit-order effect of renewable resources: Evidence from Australia’s National Electricity Market	7
Analytical study of the operation and needs of Benin Republic's electricity sector	7
Effects of relaxing South Korea's increasing-block electricity pricing structure on residential consumers	7
Subsidized or subsidizing? Municipal drinking water service funds in California	7
Pathways to a sustainable electricity sector in Kenya: Challenges and transformational factors	7
Performance analytics for regulation in retail water utilities: Guiding asset management by identifying peers and targets	7
Privatization pathways in Brazilian water utilities: The role of financial standing	7
Industrial electricity consumption efficiency and energy policy in Japan	7
Evolutionary game theory-based system dynamics modeling for community solid waste classification in China	7
Greater than the sum: On regulating innovation in electricity distribution networks with externalities	7
Modeling the impact of price and usage efficiency on domestic water demand in Saudi Arabia	7
A robust benchmarking of direct margin in Italy's energy retail markets	7
Embedding broader values in the regulatory model: An analysis of Ofgem's consumer value proposition for the natural gas distribution sector	7
Communication strategies and consumer acceptance of utility-controlled heat pumps and electric vehicles	7
Does upgrading household consumption affect the eco-efficiency of China's solid waste management as measured by emissions?	7
How demand-side management can shape electricity generation capacity planning	7
A clustering scheme for performance benchmarking in the regulation of electric distribution utilities in Iran	7
Grid assessment of community-driven renewable energy technology and storage integration in rural Yucatan, Mexico	7
Has benchmarking improved the performance of the Australian electricity distribution utilities? A meta-frontier model	7
Competition and synergy effects of the horizontal integration for regional ports	7
Governmental response to public complaints about solid waste sorting in China: Evidence from quasi-natural experiments	7
Circular economy in the water and wastewater sector: Tariff impact and financial performance of SMARTechs	7
Efficient resource utilization of the electricity distribution sector using nonparametric data envelopment analysis and influential factors	7
Politico-economic determinants of the performance of electric cooperatives in the Philippines	7
Parallel or cross implementation? Carbon emission trading and renewable portfolio standards in China	7