Utilities Policy

Article	Citations
Editorial Board	188
Excess demand or excess supply? A comparison of renewable energy certificate markets in the United Kingdom and Australia	127
Ways to promote investments in sustainable energy utilities in the central Asian regional economic cooperation program region	105
Legislative reforms and market dynamics in the provision of urban water service by private contract operators in Spain	97
Designing circular economy-compliant municipal solid waste management charging schemes	74
Assessing the effect of increasing block tariffs for residential natural gas in Hefei City, China	72
Opportunities and challenges for small-scale flexibility in European electricity markets	71
Measuring the productivity growth of Malaysia's water sector: Implications for regulatory reform	68
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	62
Assessing the relationship between electricity theft and customer payment habits: A machine-learning approach	60
Household energy poverty and personal time allocation: Empirical evidence from China	58
Navigating the transition: The impacts of electricity tariff regulation on distributed generation in Brazil	55
Feasibility analysis of implementing an On Bill Financing program to promote energy-efficiency in Dubai-UAE	53
Household access to the public electricity grid in Cameroon: Analysis of connection determinants	52
Good governance and energy justice: Pathways to human development	51
Evaluation of the multi-dimensional growth potential of China's public charging facilities for electric vehicles through 2030	51
Addressing low-quality electricity service for low-income consumers: Empirical evidence from Brazil	50
A shortage pricing mechanism for capacity remuneration with simulation for the Greek electricity balancing market	49
Reinventing European air traffic control based on the covid-19 pandemic experience	49
Water governance models for meeting sustainable development Goals:A structured literature review	44
Outage-induced power backup choice in Pakistan	43
Exploratory analysis of the water governance frameworks regarding the OECD principles in two river basins in Brazil and Portugal	42
Development and application of regional urban water security indicators	39
A mixed-method analysis of New Zealand's smart meter rollout experience	38
A fair grid connection cost-sharing model for electricity based on the random forest machine learning method	36

Inflation effects of oil and gas prices in the UK: Symmetries and asymmetries	34
An integrated model for electricity market coupling simulations: Evidence from the European power market crossroad	33
Characterizing flexibility in power markets and systems	33
A review of global research on private investment in the water sector	33
Assessing the integration of planning instruments for urban land use and water service	33
Optimal policies for electromobility: Joint assessment of transport and electricity distribution costs in Norway	32
The electrification-social development nexus in Bangladesh: Do governmental policies matter?	32
Technological innovation and energy efficiency in central Eastern European countries	31
Cybersecurity and resilience in the swiss electricity sector: Status and policy options	30
A system dynamics framework to formulate energy policies for sustainable development in Ethiopia	30
Service quality performance indicators for electricity distribution in Brazil	29
Subnational perspectives on energy transition pathways for Mexico's electricity grid	29
Is it all about supply? Demand-side effects on the Spanish electricity market following Covid-19 lockdown policies	29
Transforming marginal-cost pricing: A blockchain approach to fundamental energy system dynamics	28
An experiment in own-price elasticity estimation for non-residential electricity demand in the U.S.	27
Energy resource productivity and environmental quality: A quantile-on-quantile study of Latin America from 1990 to 2022	26
A sustainability assessment of decentralized water supply systems in Bandung City, Indonesia	25
Comparative analysis of energy poverty definition and measurement in Portugal and Spain	24
Open questions for public water management: Discussions from Uruguay's restatization process	24
Public-sector reform: Lessons from the privatisation experiment in Greece	24
Is more competition better? Retail electricity prices and switching rates in the European Union	24
Screening for collusion in wholesale electricity markets: A literature review	24
Factors influencing residential water consumption in Wallonia, Belgium	24
Urban broadband infrastructure and green total-factor energy efficiency in China	24
The distributional effects of rural electrification on household welfare: Evidence from Senegal	23
Electricity system resilience: An integrated bibliometric and systematic literature review	23
Does district heating affect residential property prices? Case study of an urban area in South Korea	22
Improving asset management in capital-intensive industries: Case study of a Portuguese water utility	22
Editorial Board	22
Incorporating nonrevenue water in the efficiency assessment of water supply utilities: A parametric enhanced hyperbolic distance function	21
Regulating electricity spot markets during extreme events: The 2021 Texas case	21
Influence of population mobility on electricity consumption in seven U.S. cities during the COVID-19 pandemic	21
Estimating stranded coal assets in China's power sector	20
Transition to greener electricity and resource use impact on environmental quality: Policy based study from OECD countries	20
Forecasting of Türkiye's net electricity consumption with metaheuristic algorithms	19
Assessing water conservation behaviour of India's urban households	19
A case study of financing zero-emission power-to-gas technologies in Spain	19
A lifecycle-based indicator to support residual solid waste flow planning at the regional level	19
Detection of unauthorized consumption in water supply systems: A case study using logistic regression	18
Customer complaint management and smart technology adoption by community water systems	18
Open Water: Impacts of Retail Competition on Service Performance and Water-Use Efficiency in England	18
Asymmetric impact of green bonds on energy efficiency: Fresh evidence from quantile estimation	17
Multi-criteria decision support: A case study of Southeast Europe power systems	17
Regulatory analysis of E-mobility for Brazil: A comparative review and outlook	17
Editorial Board	17
New avenues for community solar adoption research: A qualitative comparative analysis of ten U.S. states	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
Socioeconomic drivers of residential electricity expenditures in India	16
China's textbook approach to regulatory reform of the natural gas market	16

Modelling features and outcomes of Brazil's electricity tariff flag program	16
Are Brazilian water auction prices affordable for vulnerable families?	16
No-queue road pricing: A comprehensive policy instrument for Europe?	16
Drivers of mobile broadband pricing: Cross-national evidence on policy and market dynamics	15
Solving electric power distribution uncertainty using deep learning and incentive-based demand response	15
Management efficiency of Chinese toll road operating companies and influencing factors	15
Water poverty in a ‘Hydro Nation’: Exploring distributional and recognitional water injustice in Scotland	15
Environmental benefits of energy poverty alleviation, renewable resources, and urbanization in North Africa	15
Waste management, quality of life and natural resources utilization matter for renewable electricity generation: The main and moderate role of environmental policy	15
Transition mapping for modern energy service provision under uncertainty: A case study from Brazil	14
Seeing more than reading:The visual mode in utilities' sustainability reports	14
A data-driven approach to reduce electricity theft in developing countries	14
Measuring energy poverty by estimating the income elasticity of energy demand: An application to Kazakhstan	14
A note on hydropower as a marginal price setter for Spain's electricity market in 2021–2022	14
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
Spatial analysis of energy communities and energy vulnerabilities in Spain	14
Water democracy under European Union law: Requiring participatory services management	14
Agent-based modeling of residential photovoltaic adoption and diffusion: Implications for energy policy design	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
Editorial Board	13
Enhancing financial efficiency and receivable collection in the water sector: Insights from structural equation modeling	13
Possible paths for Mexico's electricity system in the clean energy transition	13
Challenges of recycled water pricing	13
Can bureaucrats change light bulbs? Institutional constraints of energy poverty alleviation programs in Taiwan	13
Common risk factors for Latin American electric utilities	13
High-speed rail and air transport competition under high flight delay conditions in China: A case study of the Beijing-Shanghai corridor	13
Photovoltaic project investment based on the real options method: An analysis of the East China power grid region	13
The impact of transparency policies on local flexibility markets in electric distribution networks	13
A multi-criteria model for measuring the sustainability orientation of Italian water utilities	13
The impact of pollution information disclosure on household electricity consumption: Evidence from China	13
A novel TSO settlement scheme for the Frequency Containment Reserve Cooperation in Europe’s integrated electricity market	13
Evidence of supply security and sustainability challenges in Nigeria’s power sector	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
Merit-order of dispatchable and variable renewable energy sources in Turkey's day-ahead electricity market	12
Alternative operational modes for Chinese PV poverty alleviation power stations: Economic impacts on stakeholders	12
Is cognition of residential tiered pricing policy effective in reducing electricity consumption in China?	12
On sharing the costs of public drinking water infrastructure renewal among users with different preferences	12
Assessing the role of green finance in sustainable energy investments by power utilities: Evidence from China	12
Insights from the N11 economies on drivers of the clean energy transition	12
Defining and measuring active distribution system operators for the electricity and natural gas sectors	12
Rural-urban inequality in drinking water accessibility as a socioeconomic outcome in Nigeria	11
The status of and opportunities for utility-scale battery storage in Australia: A regulatory and market perspective	11
Comparing multi-criteria models for ranking the Performance of India's water supply utilities	11
Performance assessment of the Chilean water sector: A network data envelopment analysis approach	11
Household acceptance of solar water heaters in South Africa: An expectancy-disconfirmation model	11
From pragmatic to politicized? The future of water remunicipalization in the United States	11
Efficiency and productivity of renewable energy technologies: Evidence from U.S. investor-owned utilities across regional markets	11
Economics of utility-scale batteries in Romania under various market conditions	11
Better safe than sorry? Stated preferences and the precautionary principle for securing drinking water quality in an Italian district	11
Editorial Board	11
Understanding the variability of residential energy poverty in India	11
Pragmatism as an approach for decision-making: Why two Kenyan water utilities opted for pre-paid water dispensers	11
How are public utilities responding to electricity market restructuring and the energy transition? Lessons from Israel	10
Techno-economic assessment of residential PV system tariff policies in Jordan	10
Energy knowledge and public response to restarting nuclear plants in Japan following the fukushima accident	10
Does human capital complement sustainable development goals? Evidence from leading carbon emitter countries	10
Community Energy in Germany – Bowling Alone in Elite Clubs?	10
Management control by municipal utilities for value creation to achieve the sustainable development goals	10
Clustered patterns of household water consumption in Portuguese municipalities: Do regional location and population trajectory matter?	10
Enhancing electricity distribution efficiency in Pakistan: A framework for progress and action	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
A time aggregation approach for reducing identifiability in household energy data	10
Clean energy transition in the Turkish power sector: A techno-economic analysis with a high-resolution power expansion model	10
Investment in vehicle-to-grid and distributed energy resources: Distributor versus prosumer perspectives and the impact of rate structures	10
Guiding electricity distribution system investments to improve service quality: A European study	10
Does information intervention influence residential waste-source separation behavior?	10
Editorial Board	10
Mitigating the risk of photovoltaic power generation: A complementarity model of solar irradiation in diverse regions applied to Brazil	10
Tariff flags and electricity consumption response in Brazil	10
Waste heat inconsistencies in the EU's energy legislation	10
Prepaid water meters and water distribution system improvement: A case study of Jenin city, Palestine	10
Collaborative governance challenges in energy efficiency and conservation: The case of Pennsylvania	9
Risk disclosure in sustainability reports: Empirical evidence from the energy sector	9
Evaluation of the eco-efficiency of territorial districts with seaport economic activities	9
Digital infrastructure investment and carbon emissions reduction based on the Broadband China policy	9
Effects of the circular economy, environmental policy, energy transition, and geopolitical risk on sustainable electricity generation	9
Editorial Board	9

Driving industrial and economic growth in Central and Eastern Europe: The role of electricity infrastructure and renewable energy	9
Promoting efficient district heating in Estonia	9
Economics and policy implications of residential photovoltaic systems in Italy's developed market	9
Renewable energy project implementation: Will the Baltic States catch up with the Nordic countries?	9
Water sector resilience in the United Kingdom and Ireland: The COVID-19 challenge	9
An analysis of the interactions between daily electricity demand levels in France	9
Market design options for electricity markets with high variable renewable generation	8
Microgrid operation strategies considering government subsidies and user preferences based on evolutionary games	8
Performance evaluation of China's photovoltaic poverty alleviation project using machine learning and satellite images	8
How policies affect the cost-effectiveness of residential renewable energy in Iran: A techno-economic analysis for optimization	8
A regulatory robust conditional approach to measuring the efficiency of wholesale water supply and wastewater treatment services	8
Assessing eco-productivity change in Chilean municipal solid waste services	8
Forecasting renewable energy utilization by Iran's water and wastewater industries	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
Effectiveness of carbon emissions trading and renewable energy portfolio standards in the Chinese provincial and coupled electricity markets	8
Design and implementation of a competitive framework for a day-ahead demand-response program in Iran	8
Consumer price effects of deregulated electric generation markets: The case of Ohio and the midwestern United States	8
The corruption-emissions nexus: Do information and communication technologies make a difference?	8
Drivers and barriers to participation in Sweden's local flexibility markets for electricity	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
Efficient resource utilization of the electricity distribution sector using nonparametric data envelopment analysis and influential factors	7
Impact of vehicle charging on Portugal's national electricity load profile in 2030	7
Evolutionary game theory-based system dynamics modeling for community solid waste classification in China	7
Pathways to a sustainable electricity sector in Kenya: Challenges and transformational factors	7
Administrative congestion management meets electricity network regulation: Aligning incentives between the renewable generators and network operator	7
Awareness of coping costs and willingness to pay for urban drinking water service: Evidence from Lahore, Pakistan	7
Performance analytics for regulation in retail water utilities: Guiding asset management by identifying peers and targets	7
An experimental approach to measuring consumer preferences for water charges	7
Structural efficiency assessment of regional airports: Lessons from India	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
Politico-economic determinants of the performance of electric cooperatives in the Philippines	7
Operational concerns and solutions in smart electricity distribution systems	7
Does upgrading household consumption affect the eco-efficiency of China's solid waste management as measured by emissions?	7
Forecasting short-term electricity load using hybrid support vector regression with grey catastrophe and random forest modeling	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
Calculating the realized investment returns of U.S. electric utilities	6
Measuring the price impact of price-cap regulation among Canadian electricity distribution utilities	6
Efficiency benchmarking of Irish and North Atlantic Spanish ports: Implications for blue growth	6
Malaysia’s electricity market structure in transition	6
Industrial electricity consumption efficiency and energy policy in Japan	6
A robust benchmarking of direct margin in Italy's energy retail markets	6
Effective communication of time–of–use electricity tariffs: Plain and simple	6
Determinants of water loss in Portuguese utilities	6
Private ownership of water and wastewater systems: Assessing health impacts	6
Institutional and contextual drivers of and barriers to incentive-based demand response: A comparative case study in the Pacific Northwest	6
Pass-through in residential retail electricity competition: Evidence from Pennsylvania	6
Decentralized wastewater system practices in developing countries: A systematic review	6
Household electricity demand in Latin America and the Caribbean: A meta-analysis of price elasticity	6
Embedding broader values in the regulatory model: An analysis of Ofgem's consumer value proposition for the natural gas distribution sector	6
Has benchmarking improved the performance of the Australian electricity distribution utilities? A meta-frontier model	6
Editorial Board	6
Demand for grid-supplied electricity in the presence of distributed solar energy resources: Evidence from New York City	6
Exogenous risk assessment of a Belt-and-Road renewable energy project	6
Designing a local flexibility market for buying back capacity from electricity consumers connected to the distribution network	6
Factors affecting judicial review of regulatory appeals	6
Household attitudes toward wastewater recycling in Saudi Arabia	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
Subsidized or subsidizing? Municipal drinking water service funds in California	6
Turmoil in the Chilean electricity sector: A failed attempt at using advanced contracts for differences to support the energy transition?	6
IoT implementation for energy system sustainability: The role of actors and related challenges	5
Techno-economic analysis of a hybrid photovoltaic-wind-biomass-battery system for off-grid power in rural Guatemala	5
Multilevel governance, PV solar energy, and entrepreneurship: the generation of green hydrogen as a fuel of renewable origin	5
Effect of electricity price reform on households’ electricity consumption in urban Ethiopia	5
A mechanism to overcome barriers to inter-provincial power supply substitution in China	5
Smartening up: User experience with smart water metering infrastructure in an African city	5
Real-life resilience: Exploring the organisational environment of international water utilities	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
Drivers of district heating's dominance in Sweden's urban areas: A historical perspective	5
Dynamic demand response to electricity prices: Evidence from the Spanish retail market	5
How environmental policy stringency affects renewable energy investment? Implications for green investment horizons	5
Can financial literacy Ease energy poverty? Some Lessons at the household level in China	5
Financial inclusion and energy poverty reduction in sub-Saharan Africa	5
The rhetoric of community participation in urban South African water governance	5
Alternative tariff structures and household composition: Evidence from Spain's Valencia region	5
Wholesale electricity market economics of solar generation in Israel	5
Gauging energy poverty in developing countries with a composite metric of electricity access	5
Stakeholder interaction in the digital transformation of China's electric power sector: An evolutionary game model	5
Enlarged scars: The effects of economic policy uncertainty on electricity accessibility and urban-rural disparity	5
Data integration in asset management of municipal pipe networks in Sweden: Challenges, gaps, and potential drivers	5
The diffusion of the utility tunnel policy: Evidence from Chinese cities	5
Exploring customer satisfaction in Great Britain's retail energy sector Part I: The comparative use of Trustpilot online reviews in four sectors	5
Human resource training to implement transmission schemes for renewable power evacuation in India	5
Organizational models for the decommissioning of nuclear power plants: Lessons from the United Kingdom and the United States	5
Household water bill perception in Brazil	5
On the role of water utility governance for climate resilience: A Corporate Social Responsibility Directive approach	5
Sustainability disclosure and reporting by municipally owned water utilities	5
Public utility ownership and in-kind trade policy in vertically related markets	5
Does renewable energy development enhance energy security?	5
Institutional diversity and safe drinking water provision in the United States	5