Utilities Policy

Article	Citations
Ways to promote investments in sustainable energy utilities in the central Asian regional economic cooperation program region	222
Legislative reforms and market dynamics in the provision of urban water service by private contract operators in Spain	146
How do European Union electric utilities contribute to the Sustainable Development Goals? Empirical insights on reporting and management control practices	113
Convergence dynamics of urban and rural electricity access rates across African countries	79
Editorial Board	77
An overview of Brazil's electricity market: Planning, dispatch models, pricing, and modernization	73
Designing circular economy-compliant municipal solid waste management charging schemes	72
Opportunities and challenges for small-scale flexibility in European electricity markets	67
Assessing the effect of increasing block tariffs for residential natural gas in Hefei City, China	62
Excess demand or excess supply? A comparison of renewable energy certificate markets in the United Kingdom and Australia	59
Assessing the relationship between electricity theft and customer payment habits: A machine-learning approach	58
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	57
Feasibility analysis of implementing an On Bill Financing program to promote energy-efficiency in Dubai-UAE	56
Exploratory analysis of the water governance frameworks regarding the OECD principles in two river basins in Brazil and Portugal	55
Evaluation of the multi-dimensional growth potential of China's public charging facilities for electric vehicles through 2030	54
Measuring energy poverty in Argentina: The relevance of regional disparities and policies	51
Good governance and energy justice: Pathways to human development	50
Addressing low-quality electricity service for low-income consumers: Empirical evidence from Brazil	49
Household access to the public electricity grid in Cameroon: Analysis of connection determinants	49
Outage-induced power backup choice in Pakistan	46
Navigating the transition: The impacts of electricity tariff regulation on distributed generation in Brazil	44
Household energy poverty and personal time allocation: Empirical evidence from China	40
Reinventing European air traffic control based on the covid-19 pandemic experience	39
A mixed-method analysis of New Zealand's smart meter rollout experience	39
Development and application of regional urban water security indicators	36

Assessing the integration of planning instruments for urban land use and water service	35
Editorial Board	35
A fair grid connection cost-sharing model for electricity based on the random forest machine learning method	35
The electrification-social development nexus in Bangladesh: Do governmental policies matter?	35
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	33
Technological innovation and energy efficiency in central Eastern European countries	32
Inflation effects of oil and gas prices in the UK: Symmetries and asymmetries	32
Is more competition better? Retail electricity prices and switching rates in the European Union	31
Cybersecurity and resilience in the swiss electricity sector: Status and policy options	31
Subsidizing solar energy in Indonesia: Evaluating the fossil fuel depletion premium as a revenue-neutral policy tool	30
Service quality performance indicators for electricity distribution in Brazil	30
Evolution of smart grid cybersecurity: toward a systematic framework for collaborative and sustainable development	30
Financial statement comparability and earnings management under alternative standards: A study of Brazilian electrification cooperatives	29
Transforming marginal-cost pricing: A blockchain approach to fundamental energy system dynamics	27
Energy resource productivity and environmental quality: A quantile-on-quantile study of Latin America from 1990 to 2022	27
The effect of temperatures on household electricity consumption in northern China: Evidence from smart meters	26
Editorial Board	26
Is it all about supply? Demand-side effects on the Spanish electricity market following Covid-19 lockdown policies	26
A sustainability assessment of decentralized water supply systems in Bandung City, Indonesia	25
An experiment in own-price elasticity estimation for non-residential electricity demand in the U.S.	25
Subnational perspectives on energy transition pathways for Mexico's electricity grid	24
Factors influencing residential water consumption in Wallonia, Belgium	24
Urban broadband infrastructure and green total-factor energy efficiency in China	23
Comparative analysis of energy poverty definition and measurement in Portugal and Spain	23
Renewable energy communities and the ecological transition: A game theoretic bargaining approach	23
Editorial Board	22
Forecasting of Türkiye's net electricity consumption with metaheuristic algorithms	22
Screening for collusion in wholesale electricity markets: A literature review	22
Incorporating nonrevenue water in the efficiency assessment of water supply utilities: A parametric enhanced hyperbolic distance function	22
The distributional effects of rural electrification on household welfare: Evidence from Senegal	22
A case study of financing zero-emission power-to-gas technologies in Spain	22
Beyond coverage: Unveiling income and spatial inequalities in access to water and sanitation services in Chile	21
Electricity system resilience: An integrated bibliometric and systematic literature review	21
Open Water: Impacts of Retail Competition on Service Performance and Water-Use Efficiency in England	20
Does district heating affect residential property prices? Case study of an urban area in South Korea	20
Regulating electricity spot markets during extreme events: The 2021 Texas case	20
Assessing water conservation behaviour of India's urban households	20
Determinants of financial performance and sustainability in Namibia's electricity distribution sector	20
Influence of population mobility on electricity consumption in seven U.S. cities during the COVID-19 pandemic	20
A lifecycle-based indicator to support residual solid waste flow planning at the regional level	20
Estimating stranded coal assets in China's power sector	19
Asymmetric impact of green bonds on energy efficiency: Fresh evidence from quantile estimation	19
Transition to greener electricity and resource use impact on environmental quality: Policy based study from OECD countries	19
Assessing the public-private partnership handover: Experience from China's water sector	18
Detection of unauthorized consumption in water supply systems: A case study using logistic regression	18
Regulatory analysis of E-mobility for Brazil: A comparative review and outlook	18
Customer complaint management and smart technology adoption by community water systems	18
Improving asset management in capital-intensive industries: Case study of a Portuguese water utility	18

Income elasticity of electricity demand in the context of Portugal’s energy transition	17
No-queue road pricing: A comprehensive policy instrument for Europe?	17
Multi-criteria decision support: A case study of Southeast Europe power systems	17
Drivers of mobile broadband pricing: Cross-national evidence on policy and market dynamics	17
Modelling features and outcomes of Brazil's electricity tariff flag program	17
Socioeconomic drivers of residential electricity expenditures in India	17
China's textbook approach to regulatory reform of the natural gas market	16
New avenues for community solar adoption research: A qualitative comparative analysis of ten U.S. states	16
Network optimization and deployment for carbon capture and storage in China's coal-fired power plants	16
Solving electric power distribution uncertainty using deep learning and incentive-based demand response	16
Payback of natural gas turbines: A retrospective analysis with implications for decarbonizing grids	16
Editorial Board	16
Water poverty in a ‘Hydro Nation’: Exploring distributional and recognitional water injustice in Scotland	16
Management efficiency of Chinese toll road operating companies and influencing factors	16
A note on hydropower as a marginal price setter for Spain's electricity market in 2021–2022	15
Waste management, quality of life and natural resources utilization matter for renewable electricity generation: The main and moderate role of environmental policy	15
Agent-based modeling of residential photovoltaic adoption and diffusion: Implications for energy policy design	15
Are Brazilian water auction prices affordable for vulnerable families?	15
Environmental benefits of energy poverty alleviation, renewable resources, and urbanization in North Africa	15
Integrating demand forecasting and deep reinforcement learning for real-time electric vehicle charging price optimization	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	14
Impact of Spanish renewable support scheme reforms on the revenues of photovoltaic power plants	14
A data-driven approach to reduce electricity theft in developing countries	14
Water democracy under European Union law: Requiring participatory services management	14
Transition mapping for modern energy service provision under uncertainty: A case study from Brazil	14
Can bureaucrats change light bulbs? Institutional constraints of energy poverty alleviation programs in Taiwan	14
Measuring energy poverty by estimating the income elasticity of energy demand: An application to Kazakhstan	14
Energy citizenship in northern Ghana: drivers of community engagement in the sustainable energy transitions	14
Seeing more than reading:The visual mode in utilities' sustainability reports	14
Efficiency of water service management alternatives in Spain considering environmental factors	14
Merit-order of dispatchable and variable renewable energy sources in Turkey's day-ahead electricity market	13
Motivating residents to save water based on the model of goal-directed behavior: Evidence from China	13
A multi-criteria model for measuring the sustainability orientation of Italian water utilities	13
Enhancing energy transition in Egypt: The roles of water resources and digitalization	13
A SWOT analysis for the evolution of Brazil’s renewable energy sector	13
Spatial analysis of energy communities and energy vulnerabilities in Spain	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
Common risk factors for Latin American electric utilities	13
Editorial Board	12
Is cognition of residential tiered pricing policy effective in reducing electricity consumption in China?	12
The impact of pollution information disclosure on household electricity consumption: Evidence from China	12
Enhancing financial efficiency and receivable collection in the water sector: Insights from structural equation modeling	12
Do publicly owned companies have lower district heating prices? An empirical analysis for Germany	12
The impact of transparency policies on local flexibility markets in electric distribution networks	11
Challenges of recycled water pricing	11
Renewable R&D investments and carbon emissions in G7 countries: The mediating roles of technology and economic efficiency	11
Techno-economic assessment of residential PV system tariff policies in Jordan	11
Possible paths for Mexico's electricity system in the clean energy transition	11
Assessing the role of green finance in sustainable energy investments by power utilities: Evidence from China	11
Defining and measuring active distribution system operators for the electricity and natural gas sectors	11
Evidence of supply security and sustainability challenges in Nigeria’s power sector	11
Photovoltaic project investment based on the real options method: An analysis of the East China power grid region	11
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
Rethinking electricity demand-side response: Relational approaches to the challenge of residential flexibility in Italy	10
Editorial Board	10
Rural-urban inequality in drinking water accessibility as a socioeconomic outcome in Nigeria	10
Does information intervention influence residential waste-source separation behavior?	10
Efficiency and productivity of renewable energy technologies: Evidence from U.S. investor-owned utilities across regional markets	10
Alternative operational modes for Chinese PV poverty alleviation power stations: Economic impacts on stakeholders	10
Retail electricity markets in Europe: Taking stock, looking ahead	10
Modeling the impact of electric vehicle charging on Lisbon's electricity distribution network	10
Guiding electricity distribution system investments to improve service quality: A European study	10
On sharing the costs of public drinking water infrastructure renewal among users with different preferences	10
Better safe than sorry? Stated preferences and the precautionary principle for securing drinking water quality in an Italian district	10
Understanding the variability of residential energy poverty in India	10
Pragmatism as an approach for decision-making: Why two Kenyan water utilities opted for pre-paid water dispensers	10
The intertemporal unfairness of the feed-in tariff scheme in the United Kingdom: Catching up across regions	9
Comparing multi-criteria models for ranking the Performance of India's water supply utilities	9
Internalizing CO2 emissions in Spanish port efficiency analysis: A stochastic frontier approach with policy insights	9
Enhancing electricity distribution efficiency in Pakistan: A framework for progress and action	9
Clean energy transition in the Turkish power sector: A techno-economic analysis with a high-resolution power expansion model	9
Waste heat inconsistencies in the EU's energy legislation	9
Energy knowledge and public response to restarting nuclear plants in Japan following the fukushima accident	9
Performance assessment of the Chilean water sector: A network data envelopment analysis approach	9
Public ownership and ESG policies: implications for firm productivity in local transportation	9
A time aggregation approach for reducing identifiability in household energy data	9
Prepaid water meters and water distribution system improvement: A case study of Jenin city, Palestine	9
Clustered patterns of household water consumption in Portuguese municipalities: Do regional location and population trajectory matter?	9

How are public utilities responding to electricity market restructuring and the energy transition? Lessons from Israel	9
The status of and opportunities for utility-scale battery storage in Australia: A regulatory and market perspective	9
Economics of utility-scale batteries in Romania under various market conditions	9
Implementing energy sharing in energy communities: A comparative legal analysis of Austria and Flanders	9
Investment in vehicle-to-grid and distributed energy resources: Distributor versus prosumer perspectives and the impact of rate structures	8
Management control by municipal utilities for value creation to achieve the sustainable development goals	8
The impact of the delegated management model of urban piped service delivery on water quality in Kisumu, Kenya	8
Economics and policy implications of residential photovoltaic systems in Italy's developed market	8
Renewable energy project implementation: Will the Baltic States catch up with the Nordic countries?	8
Does human capital complement sustainable development goals? Evidence from leading carbon emitter countries	8
Driving industrial and economic growth in Central and Eastern Europe: The role of electricity infrastructure and renewable energy	8
An analysis of the interactions between daily electricity demand levels in France	8
Renewable energy investment in China's new demonstration cities: A quasi-natural experiment	8
European and US approaches to energy poverty: Classifying and evaluating design strategies	8
Effects of the circular economy, environmental policy, energy transition, and geopolitical risk on sustainable electricity generation	8
Tariff flags and electricity consumption response in Brazil	8
Digital infrastructure investment and carbon emissions reduction based on the Broadband China policy	8
Collaborative governance challenges in energy efficiency and conservation: The case of Pennsylvania	8
Promoting efficient district heating in Estonia	8
Local flexibility markets based on grid segmentation	8
Analysis of hourly price granularity implementation in the Brazilian deregulated electricity contracting environment	7
Performance analytics for regulation in retail water utilities: Guiding asset management by identifying peers and targets	7
Administrative congestion management meets electricity network regulation: Aligning incentives between the renewable generators and network operator	7
Has benchmarking improved the performance of the Australian electricity distribution utilities? A meta-frontier model	7
Forecasting renewable energy utilization by Iran's water and wastewater industries	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
Estimating production functions to determine the marginal economic value and price elasticity of water in the Chilean industrial sector	7
Effectiveness of carbon emissions trading and renewable energy portfolio standards in the Chinese provincial and coupled electricity markets	7
Performance evaluation of China's photovoltaic poverty alleviation project using machine learning and satellite images	7
Local willingness to fund climate-resilient water utilities in a tourism-dependent region of Indonesia	7
An experimental approach to measuring consumer preferences for water charges	7
A clustering scheme for performance benchmarking in the regulation of electric distribution utilities in Iran	7
Subsidized or subsidizing? Municipal drinking water service funds in California	7
Communication strategies and consumer acceptance of utility-controlled heat pumps and electric vehicles	7
Editorial Board	7
Consumer price effects of deregulated electric generation markets: The case of Ohio and the midwestern United States	7
Water sector resilience in the United Kingdom and Ireland: The COVID-19 challenge	7
Impact of vehicle charging on Portugal's national electricity load profile in 2030	7
A regulatory robust conditional approach to measuring the efficiency of wholesale water supply and wastewater treatment services	7
Market design options for electricity markets with high variable renewable generation	7
Pricing and sharing rules for energy communities	7
Operational concerns and solutions in smart electricity distribution systems	7
Politico-economic determinants of the performance of electric cooperatives in the Philippines	7
Assessing eco-productivity change in Chilean municipal solid waste services	7
Microgrid operation strategies considering government subsidies and user preferences based on evolutionary games	7
Design and implementation of a competitive framework for a day-ahead demand-response program in Iran	7
Risk disclosure in sustainability reports: Empirical evidence from the energy sector	7
Privatization pathways in Brazilian water utilities: The role of financial standing	6
Embedding broader values in the regulatory model: An analysis of Ofgem's consumer value proposition for the natural gas distribution sector	6
Modeling the impact of price and usage efficiency on domestic water demand in Saudi Arabia	6
Calculating the realized investment returns of U.S. electric utilities	6
Demand for grid-supplied electricity in the presence of distributed solar energy resources: Evidence from New York City	6
Household attitudes toward wastewater recycling in Saudi Arabia	6
Industrial electricity consumption efficiency and energy policy in Japan	6
Reversing privatization: Political distortions and performance outcomes in Buenos Aires water services	6
Parallel or cross implementation? Carbon emission trading and renewable portfolio standards in China	6
A robust benchmarking of direct margin in Italy's energy retail markets	6
Editorial Board	6
The impact of variable renewables on price dynamics within wholesale electricity markets	6
Pass-through in residential retail electricity competition: Evidence from Pennsylvania	6
Decentralized wastewater system practices in developing countries: A systematic review	6
Governmental response to public complaints about solid waste sorting in China: Evidence from quasi-natural experiments	6
Household electricity demand in Latin America and the Caribbean: A meta-analysis of price elasticity	6
Evolutionary game theory-based system dynamics modeling for community solid waste classification in China	6
Pathways to a sustainable electricity sector in Kenya: Challenges and transformational factors	6
How demand-side management can shape electricity generation capacity planning	6
Effects of relaxing South Korea's increasing-block electricity pricing structure on residential consumers	6
Market share, plant ownership, and the merit-order effect of renewable resources: Evidence from Australia’s National Electricity Market	6
Enlarged scars: The effects of economic policy uncertainty on electricity accessibility and urban-rural disparity	6
Turmoil in the Chilean electricity sector: A failed attempt at using advanced contracts for differences to support the energy transition?	6
Circular economy in the water and wastewater sector: Tariff impact and financial performance of SMARTechs	6
Greater than the sum: On regulating innovation in electricity distribution networks with externalities	6
Endogenous and exogenous sources of efficiency in the management of Turkish airports	6
Does upgrading household consumption affect the eco-efficiency of China's solid waste management as measured by emissions?	6
Efficient resource utilization of the electricity distribution sector using nonparametric data envelopment analysis and influential factors	6
The digital economy and energy poverty in Central and Eastern Europe	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
Simulation-based policy analysis to mitigate Colombia's coal dependency for electricity generation	5
Data integration in asset management of municipal pipe networks in Sweden: Challenges, gaps, and potential drivers	5
A mechanism to overcome barriers to inter-provincial power supply substitution in China	5
Water for daily life: Estimating basic household water needs in Lima and Quito	5
New energy-rich or still energy-poor? Evidence from selected African countries	5
Determining factors affecting customer satisfaction of the national electric power company (MERALCO) during the COVID-19 pandemic in the Phillippines	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
Organizational models for the decommissioning of nuclear power plants: Lessons from the United Kingdom and the United States	5
Techno-economic analysis of a hybrid photovoltaic-wind-biomass-battery system for off-grid power in rural Guatemala	5
On the role of water utility governance for climate resilience: A Corporate Social Responsibility Directive approach	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
The rhetoric of community participation in urban South African water governance	5
Evolution of the EU legal framework for promoting RES-E: A market compatible paradigm shift?	5
Effect of electricity price reform on households’ electricity consumption in urban Ethiopia	5
Smartening up: User experience with smart water metering infrastructure in an African city	5