Utilities Policy

Papers
(The median citation count of Utilities Policy is 4. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2021-05-01 to 2025-05-01.)
ArticleCitations
Designing circular economy-compliant municipal solid waste management charging schemes207
Legislative reforms and market dynamics in the provision of urban water service by private contract operators in Spain162
Ways to promote investments in sustainable energy utilities in the central Asian regional economic cooperation program region125
Assessing the effect of increasing block tariffs for residential natural gas in Hefei City, China100
Excess demand or excess supply? A comparison of renewable energy certificate markets in the United Kingdom and Australia94
Opportunities and challenges for small-scale flexibility in European electricity markets68
Addressing low-quality electricity service for low-income consumers: Empirical evidence from Brazil64
Measuring the productivity growth of Malaysia's water sector: Implications for regulatory reform63
Heterogeneity in own-price residential customer demand elasticities for electricity under time-of-use rates: Evidence from a randomized-control trial in the United States61
Household energy poverty and personal time allocation: Empirical evidence from China59
Exploratory analysis of the water governance frameworks regarding the OECD principles in two river basins in Brazil and Portugal55
Evaluation of the multi-dimensional growth potential of China's public charging facilities for electric vehicles through 203051
Reinventing European air traffic control based on the covid-19 pandemic experience49
Navigating the transition: The impacts of electricity tariff regulation on distributed generation in Brazil49
A shortage pricing mechanism for capacity remuneration with simulation for the Greek electricity balancing market47
Outage-induced power backup choice in Pakistan47
Water governance models for meeting sustainable development Goals:A structured literature review46
Feasibility analysis of implementing an On Bill Financing program to promote energy-efficiency in Dubai-UAE46
On-street toilets for sanitation access in urban public spaces: A systematic review43
Household access to the public electricity grid in Cameroon: Analysis of connection determinants43
Interactive Time-of-use demand response for industrial electricity customers: A case study42
Cybersecurity and resilience in the swiss electricity sector: Status and policy options41
Technological innovation and energy efficiency in central Eastern European countries40
Assessing the integration of planning instruments for urban land use and water service37
An integrated model for electricity market coupling simulations: Evidence from the European power market crossroad36
The electrification-social development nexus in Bangladesh: Do governmental policies matter?33
A mixed-method analysis of New Zealand's smart meter rollout experience32
Inflation effects of oil and gas prices in the UK: Symmetries and asymmetries31
Characterizing flexibility in power markets and systems31
Development and application of regional urban water security indicators30
A fair grid connection cost-sharing model for electricity based on the random forest machine learning method30
A review of global research on private investment in the water sector29
Optimal policies for electromobility: Joint assessment of transport and electricity distribution costs in Norway28
A sustainability assessment of decentralized water supply systems in Bandung City, Indonesia28
Public-sector reform: Lessons from the privatisation experiment in Greece27
Editorial Board27
Subnational perspectives on energy transition pathways for Mexico's electricity grid27
Service quality performance indicators for electricity distribution in Brazil27
Is it all about supply? Demand-side effects on the Spanish electricity market following Covid-19 lockdown policies27
An experiment in own-price elasticity estimation for non-residential electricity demand in the U.S.26
Screening for collusion in wholesale electricity markets: A literature review25
Urban broadband infrastructure and green total-factor energy efficiency in China25
Is more competition better? Retail electricity prices and switching rates in the European Union24
Factors influencing residential water consumption in Wallonia, Belgium24
Comparative analysis of energy poverty definition and measurement in Portugal and Spain24
Incorporating nonrevenue water in the efficiency assessment of water supply utilities: A parametric enhanced hyperbolic distance function23
Assessing water conservation behaviour of India's urban households22
Open questions for public water management: Discussions from Uruguay's restatization process22
A lifecycle-based indicator to support residual solid waste flow planning at the regional level22
Revealing expert perspectives on challenges to electricity Demand-Side Management in Pakistan: An application of Q-Methodology22
The distributional effects of rural electrification on household welfare: Evidence from Senegal21
Improving asset management in capital-intensive industries: Case study of a Portuguese water utility21
Editorial Board20
Electricity system resilience: An integrated bibliometric and systematic literature review20
Regulating electricity spot markets during extreme events: The 2021 Texas case20
Does district heating affect residential property prices? Case study of an urban area in South Korea20
Open Water: Impacts of Retail Competition on Service Performance and Water-Use Efficiency in England20
Detection of unauthorized consumption in water supply systems: A case study using logistic regression20
Estimating stranded coal assets in China's power sector19
Solving electric power distribution uncertainty using deep learning and incentive-based demand response19
Asymmetric impact of green bonds on energy efficiency: Fresh evidence from quantile estimation19
Influence of population mobility on electricity consumption in seven U.S. cities during the COVID-19 pandemic19
Drivers of mobile broadband pricing: Cross-national evidence on policy and market dynamics19
Customer complaint management and smart technology adoption by community water systems19
Transition to greener electricity and resource use impact on environmental quality: Policy based study from OECD countries19
Editorial Board19
Multi-criteria decision support: A case study of Southeast Europe power systems18
No-queue road pricing: A comprehensive policy instrument for Europe?18
Modelling features and outcomes of Brazil's electricity tariff flag program18
Regulatory analysis of E-mobility for Brazil: A comparative review and outlook18
Assessing the public-private partnership handover: Experience from China's water sector17
China's textbook approach to regulatory reform of the natural gas market17
Are Brazilian water auction prices affordable for vulnerable families?17
Payback of natural gas turbines: A retrospective analysis with implications for decarbonizing grids16
Environmental benefits of energy poverty alleviation, renewable resources, and urbanization in North Africa16
Socioeconomic drivers of residential electricity expenditures in India16
Management efficiency of Chinese toll road operating companies and influencing factors16
Water poverty in a ‘Hydro Nation’: Exploring distributional and recognitional water injustice in Scotland16
Transition mapping for modern energy service provision under uncertainty: A case study from Brazil15
Water democracy under European Union law: Requiring participatory services management15
Seeing more than reading:The visual mode in utilities' sustainability reports15
A data-driven approach to reduce electricity theft in developing countries15
A note on hydropower as a marginal price setter for Spain's electricity market in 2021–202215
Waste management, quality of life and natural resources utilization matter for renewable electricity generation: The main and moderate role of environmental policy15
Efficient firms are all alike, but every inefficient firm is such in its own way: Heterogeneity of costs determinants in the Italian water sector15
Impact of Spanish renewable support scheme reforms on the revenues of photovoltaic power plants15
A multi-criteria model for measuring the sustainability orientation of Italian water utilities14
Challenges of recycled water pricing14
A novel TSO settlement scheme for the Frequency Containment Reserve Cooperation in Europe’s integrated electricity market14
Efficiency of water service management alternatives in Spain considering environmental factors14
Enhancing financial efficiency and receivable collection in the water sector: Insights from structural equation modeling14
The impact of pollution information disclosure on household electricity consumption: Evidence from China14
Common risk factors for Latin American electric utilities14
Editorial Board14
High-speed rail and air transport competition under high flight delay conditions in China: A case study of the Beijing-Shanghai corridor13
Is cognition of residential tiered pricing policy effective in reducing electricity consumption in China?13
Insights from the N11 economies on drivers of the clean energy transition13
Photovoltaic project investment based on the real options method: An analysis of the East China power grid region13
Evidence of supply security and sustainability challenges in Nigeria’s power sector13
Enhancing electricity distribution efficiency in Pakistan: A framework for progress and action13
The impact of transparency policies on local flexibility markets in electric distribution networks13
Merit-order of dispatchable and variable renewable energy sources in Turkey's day-ahead electricity market13
Possible paths for Mexico's electricity system in the clean energy transition13
Assessing the role of green finance in sustainable energy investments by power utilities: Evidence from China13
On sharing the costs of public drinking water infrastructure renewal among users with different preferences12
Public ownership and ESG policies: implications for firm productivity in local transportation12
Guiding electricity distribution system investments to improve service quality: A European study12
Defining and measuring active distribution system operators for the electricity and natural gas sectors12
Understanding the variability of residential energy poverty in India12
Editorial Board12
Alternative operational modes for Chinese PV poverty alleviation power stations: Economic impacts on stakeholders12
Techno-economic assessment of residential PV system tariff policies in Jordan12
Better safe than sorry? Stated preferences and the precautionary principle for securing drinking water quality in an Italian district12
Editorial Board11
Comparing multi-criteria models for ranking the Performance of India's water supply utilities11
Does information intervention influence residential waste-source separation behavior?11
Efficiency and productivity of renewable energy technologies: Evidence from U.S. investor-owned utilities across regional markets11
How are public utilities responding to electricity market restructuring and the energy transition? Lessons from Israel11
Pragmatism as an approach for decision-making: Why two Kenyan water utilities opted for pre-paid water dispensers11
The status of and opportunities for utility-scale battery storage in Australia: A regulatory and market perspective11
Rural-urban inequality in drinking water accessibility as a socioeconomic outcome in Nigeria11
Performance assessment of the Chilean water sector: A network data envelopment analysis approach11
From pragmatic to politicized? The future of water remunicipalization in the United States11
Data privacy and residential smart meters: Comparative analysis and harmonization potential11
Clean energy transition in the Turkish power sector: A techno-economic analysis with a high-resolution power expansion model10
Mitigating the risk of photovoltaic power generation: A complementarity model of solar irradiation in diverse regions applied to Brazil10
Prepaid water meters and water distribution system improvement: A case study of Jenin city, Palestine10
The nexus between information technology and environmental pollution: Application of a new machine learning algorithm to OECD countries10
Energy knowledge and public response to restarting nuclear plants in Japan following the fukushima accident10
Management control by municipal utilities for value creation to achieve the sustainable development goals10
Clustered patterns of household water consumption in Portuguese municipalities: Do regional location and population trajectory matter?10
Community Energy in Germany – Bowling Alone in Elite Clubs?10
The flow-based market coupling domain - Why we can't get it right10
Tariff flags and electricity consumption response in Brazil10
Investment in vehicle-to-grid and distributed energy resources: Distributor versus prosumer perspectives and the impact of rate structures10
Waste heat inconsistencies in the EU's energy legislation10
Does human capital complement sustainable development goals? Evidence from leading carbon emitter countries10
An analysis of the interactions between daily electricity demand levels in France9
The (In)efficiency of the retail-minus rule9
Risk disclosure in sustainability reports: Empirical evidence from the energy sector9
Renewable energy project implementation: Will the Baltic States catch up with the Nordic countries?9
Economics and policy implications of residential photovoltaic systems in Italy's developed market9
Collaborative governance challenges in energy efficiency and conservation: The case of Pennsylvania9
Driving industrial and economic growth in Central and Eastern Europe: The role of electricity infrastructure and renewable energy9
Promoting efficient district heating in Estonia9
Effects of the circular economy, environmental policy, energy transition, and geopolitical risk on sustainable electricity generation9
Structural efficiency assessment of regional airports: Lessons from India9
Forecasting renewable energy utilization by Iran's water and wastewater industries8
Editorial Board8
Estimating production functions to determine the marginal economic value and price elasticity of water in the Chilean industrial sector8
Impact of vehicle charging on Portugal's national electricity load profile in 20308
Effectiveness of carbon emissions trading and renewable energy portfolio standards in the Chinese provincial and coupled electricity markets8
Consumer price effects of deregulated electric generation markets: The case of Ohio and the midwestern United States8
Pathways to a sustainable electricity sector in Kenya: Challenges and transformational factors8
Has benchmarking improved the performance of the Australian electricity distribution utilities? A meta-frontier model8
A regulatory robust conditional approach to measuring the efficiency of wholesale water supply and wastewater treatment services8
Drivers and barriers to participation in Sweden's local flexibility markets for electricity8
Analysis of hourly price granularity implementation in the Brazilian deregulated electricity contracting environment8
Microgrid operation strategies considering government subsidies and user preferences based on evolutionary games8
The corruption-emissions nexus: Do information and communication technologies make a difference?8
Market design options for electricity markets with high variable renewable generation8
Improvement of customer baselines for the evaluation of demand response through the use of physically-based load models8
How policies affect the cost-effectiveness of residential renewable energy in Iran: A techno-economic analysis for optimization8
Performance evaluation of China's photovoltaic poverty alleviation project using machine learning and satellite images8
Water sector resilience in the United Kingdom and Ireland: The COVID-19 challenge8
Evaluation of the eco-efficiency of territorial districts with seaport economic activities8
Design and implementation of a competitive framework for a day-ahead demand-response program in Iran8
Communication strategies and consumer acceptance of utility-controlled heat pumps and electric vehicles8
Assessing eco-productivity change in Chilean municipal solid waste services8
Politico-economic determinants of the performance of electric cooperatives in the Philippines8
A clustering scheme for performance benchmarking in the regulation of electric distribution utilities in Iran8
Efficient resource utilization of the electricity distribution sector using nonparametric data envelopment analysis and influential factors7
Are Spanish ports efficient and profitable? A quantitative analysis7
Administrative congestion management meets electricity network regulation: Aligning incentives between the renewable generators and network operator7
Subsidized or subsidizing? Municipal drinking water service funds in California7
A smart meter data-driven distribution utility rate model for networks with prosumers7
Awareness of coping costs and willingness to pay for urban drinking water service: Evidence from Lahore, Pakistan7
Measuring the price impact of price-cap regulation among Canadian electricity distribution utilities7
A robust benchmarking of direct margin in Italy's energy retail markets7
An experimental approach to measuring consumer preferences for water charges7
How demand-side management can shape electricity generation capacity planning7
Industrial electricity consumption efficiency and energy policy in Japan7
Operational concerns and solutions in smart electricity distribution systems7
Efficiency benchmarking of Irish and North Atlantic Spanish ports: Implications for blue growth7
Performance analytics for regulation in retail water utilities: Guiding asset management by identifying peers and targets7
Endogenous and exogenous sources of efficiency in the management of Turkish airports7
Malaysia’s electricity market structure in transition7
Does upgrading household consumption affect the eco-efficiency of China's solid waste management as measured by emissions?7
Evolutionary game theory-based system dynamics modeling for community solid waste classification in China7
Gauging energy poverty in developing countries with a composite metric of electricity access6
Public utility ownership and in-kind trade policy in vertically related markets6
Designing a local flexibility market for buying back capacity from electricity consumers connected to the distribution network6
Calculating the realized investment returns of U.S. electric utilities6
Embedding broader values in the regulatory model: An analysis of Ofgem's consumer value proposition for the natural gas distribution sector6
Household electricity demand in Latin America and the Caribbean: A meta-analysis of price elasticity6
Determinants of water loss in Portuguese utilities6
Factors affecting judicial review of regulatory appeals6
Forecasting short-term electricity load using hybrid support vector regression with grey catastrophe and random forest modeling6
Institutional and contextual drivers of and barriers to incentive-based demand response: A comparative case study in the Pacific Northwest6
Does renewable energy development enhance energy security?6
In-state generation requirements and the acceptability of renewable portfolio standards6
Circular economy in the water and wastewater sector: Tariff impact and financial performance of SMARTechs6
Decentralized wastewater system practices in developing countries: A systematic review6
Demand for grid-supplied electricity in the presence of distributed solar energy resources: Evidence from New York City6
Editorial Board6
Dynamic demand response to electricity prices: Evidence from the Spanish retail market6
Pass-through in residential retail electricity competition: Evidence from Pennsylvania6
Turmoil in the Chilean electricity sector: A failed attempt at using advanced contracts for differences to support the energy transition?6
Enlarged scars: The effects of economic policy uncertainty on electricity accessibility and urban-rural disparity6
Household attitudes toward wastewater recycling in Saudi Arabia6
Developer behavior in local infrastructure provision in Indonesia: Implications for policy6
Greater than the sum: On regulating innovation in electricity distribution networks with externalities6
Effective communication of time–of–use electricity tariffs: Plain and simple6
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 perspective5
Effect of electricity price reform on households’ electricity consumption in urban Ethiopia5
Alternative tariff structures and household composition: Evidence from Spain's Valencia region5
Organizational models for the decommissioning of nuclear power plants: Lessons from the United Kingdom and the United States5
Techno-economic analysis of a hybrid photovoltaic-wind-biomass-battery system for off-grid power in rural Guatemala5
Institutional diversity and safe drinking water provision in the United States5
Real-life resilience: Exploring the organisational environment of international water utilities5
Generative literature analysis on the rise of prosumers and their influence on the sustainable energy transition5
How environmental policy stringency affects renewable energy investment? Implications for green investment horizons5
Data integration in asset management of municipal pipe networks in Sweden: Challenges, gaps, and potential drivers5
Exploring customer satisfaction in Great Britain's retail energy sector Part I: The comparative use of Trustpilot online reviews in four sectors5
Evolution of the EU legal framework for promoting RES-E: A market compatible paradigm shift?5
Household water bill perception in Brazil5
Sustainability disclosure and reporting by municipally owned water utilities5
Risk-based optimization of the debt service schedule in renewable energy project finance5
Wholesale electricity market economics of solar generation in Israel5
IoT implementation for energy system sustainability: The role of actors and related challenges5
Policy and legal frameworks for underground natural gas storage in Iran5
Human resource training to implement transmission schemes for renewable power evacuation in India5
A mechanism to overcome barriers to inter-provincial power supply substitution in China5
The diffusion of the utility tunnel policy: Evidence from Chinese cities5
Smartening up: User experience with smart water metering infrastructure in an African city5
Supporting Sustainable Rural Groundwater Demand Management with Fuzzy Decision Analysis: A Case Study in Iran5
Institutional change for the development of urban sanitation in the Global South: A social science review4
Quality performance gaps and minimal electricity losses in East Africa4
The Brazilian electricity market architecture: An analysis of instruments and misalignments4
Monte Carlo simulation of community microgrid operation: Business prospects in the Brazilian regulatory framework4
Social equity implications of advanced water metering infrastructure4
A hybrid knowledge-based method for pipe renewal planning in Water Distribution Systems with limited data: Application to Iran4
Ownership and sustainability of Italian water utilities: The stakeholder role4
Cost efficiency of Tunisian water utility districts: Does heterogeneity matter?4
Do ESG factors improve utilities corporate efficiency and reduce the risk perceived by credit lending institutions? An empirical analysis4
Why capacity market prices are too high4
Sustainable development indicators for electric power generation companies in Ecuador: A case study4
Natural hazard risk management in the Chilean drinking water industry: Diagnosis and recommendations4
Oil prices and the renewable energy transition: Empirical evidence from China4
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