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 2021-07-01 to 2025-07-01.)
ArticleCitations
Legislative reforms and market dynamics in the provision of urban water service by private contract operators in Spain180
Designing circular economy-compliant municipal solid waste management charging schemes126
Assessing the effect of increasing block tariffs for residential natural gas in Hefei City, China105
Opportunities and challenges for small-scale flexibility in European electricity markets96
Ways to promote investments in sustainable energy utilities in the central Asian regional economic cooperation program region73
Excess demand or excess supply? A comparison of renewable energy certificate markets in the United Kingdom and Australia70
Measuring the productivity growth of Malaysia's water sector: Implications for regulatory reform68
Heterogeneity in own-price residential customer demand elasticities for electricity under time-of-use rates: Evidence from a randomized-control trial in the United States67
Exploratory analysis of the water governance frameworks regarding the OECD principles in two river basins in Brazil and Portugal60
Household energy poverty and personal time allocation: Empirical evidence from China58
Navigating the transition: The impacts of electricity tariff regulation on distributed generation in Brazil53
Feasibility analysis of implementing an On Bill Financing program to promote energy-efficiency in Dubai-UAE52
Addressing low-quality electricity service for low-income consumers: Empirical evidence from Brazil51
Outage-induced power backup choice in Pakistan51
A shortage pricing mechanism for capacity remuneration with simulation for the Greek electricity balancing market49
Reinventing European air traffic control based on the covid-19 pandemic experience48
Water governance models for meeting sustainable development Goals:A structured literature review48
Evaluation of the multi-dimensional growth potential of China's public charging facilities for electric vehicles through 203047
Household access to the public electricity grid in Cameroon: Analysis of connection determinants46
Good governance and energy justice: Pathways to human development42
Development and application of regional urban water security indicators42
Optimal policies for electromobility: Joint assessment of transport and electricity distribution costs in Norway42
A mixed-method analysis of New Zealand's smart meter rollout experience36
Inflation effects of oil and gas prices in the UK: Symmetries and asymmetries34
A fair grid connection cost-sharing model for electricity based on the random forest machine learning method34
Assessing the integration of planning instruments for urban land use and water service34
Characterizing flexibility in power markets and systems33
An integrated model for electricity market coupling simulations: Evidence from the European power market crossroad32
A review of global research on private investment in the water sector32
The electrification-social development nexus in Bangladesh: Do governmental policies matter?32
Technological innovation and energy efficiency in central Eastern European countries30
Cybersecurity and resilience in the swiss electricity sector: Status and policy options30
Is it all about supply? Demand-side effects on the Spanish electricity market following Covid-19 lockdown policies30
Factors influencing residential water consumption in Wallonia, Belgium29
Subnational perspectives on energy transition pathways for Mexico's electricity grid29
Screening for collusion in wholesale electricity markets: A literature review28
An experiment in own-price elasticity estimation for non-residential electricity demand in the U.S.28
A sustainability assessment of decentralized water supply systems in Bandung City, Indonesia26
Urban broadband infrastructure and green total-factor energy efficiency in China26
Is more competition better? Retail electricity prices and switching rates in the European Union26
Public-sector reform: Lessons from the privatisation experiment in Greece26
Comparative analysis of energy poverty definition and measurement in Portugal and Spain25
Open questions for public water management: Discussions from Uruguay's restatization process24
Service quality performance indicators for electricity distribution in Brazil24
Does district heating affect residential property prices? Case study of an urban area in South Korea23
Electricity system resilience: An integrated bibliometric and systematic literature review23
The distributional effects of rural electrification on household welfare: Evidence from Senegal23
Editorial Board22
Incorporating nonrevenue water in the efficiency assessment of water supply utilities: A parametric enhanced hyperbolic distance function22
Regulating electricity spot markets during extreme events: The 2021 Texas case22
A lifecycle-based indicator to support residual solid waste flow planning at the regional level22
Influence of population mobility on electricity consumption in seven U.S. cities during the COVID-19 pandemic22
Detection of unauthorized consumption in water supply systems: A case study using logistic regression21
Improving asset management in capital-intensive industries: Case study of a Portuguese water utility21
Customer complaint management and smart technology adoption by community water systems21
Assessing water conservation behaviour of India's urban households21
Asymmetric impact of green bonds on energy efficiency: Fresh evidence from quantile estimation19
Estimating stranded coal assets in China's power sector19
Open Water: Impacts of Retail Competition on Service Performance and Water-Use Efficiency in England19
Drivers of mobile broadband pricing: Cross-national evidence on policy and market dynamics18
Transition to greener electricity and resource use impact on environmental quality: Policy based study from OECD countries18
Editorial Board18
Are Brazilian water auction prices affordable for vulnerable families?17
Multi-criteria decision support: A case study of Southeast Europe power systems17
Payback of natural gas turbines: A retrospective analysis with implications for decarbonizing grids17
Assessing the public-private partnership handover: Experience from China's water sector17
Modelling features and outcomes of Brazil's electricity tariff flag program17
No-queue road pricing: A comprehensive policy instrument for Europe?17
China's textbook approach to regulatory reform of the natural gas market17
Solving electric power distribution uncertainty using deep learning and incentive-based demand response17
Socioeconomic drivers of residential electricity expenditures in India17
Management efficiency of Chinese toll road operating companies and influencing factors16
Regulatory analysis of E-mobility for Brazil: A comparative review and outlook16
Environmental benefits of energy poverty alleviation, renewable resources, and urbanization in North Africa16
Water poverty in a ‘Hydro Nation’: Exploring distributional and recognitional water injustice in Scotland16
Waste management, quality of life and natural resources utilization matter for renewable electricity generation: The main and moderate role of environmental policy16
Transition mapping for modern energy service provision under uncertainty: A case study from Brazil15
Water democracy under European Union law: Requiring participatory services management15
Efficient firms are all alike, but every inefficient firm is such in its own way: Heterogeneity of costs determinants in the Italian water sector15
A note on hydropower as a marginal price setter for Spain's electricity market in 2021–202215
A multi-criteria model for measuring the sustainability orientation of Italian water utilities14
Efficiency of water service management alternatives in Spain considering environmental factors14
Editorial Board14
Seeing more than reading:The visual mode in utilities' sustainability reports14
Common risk factors for Latin American electric utilities14
A data-driven approach to reduce electricity theft in developing countries14
Impact of Spanish renewable support scheme reforms on the revenues of photovoltaic power plants14
Renewable R&D investments and carbon emissions in G7 countries: The mediating roles of technology and economic efficiency14
High-speed rail and air transport competition under high flight delay conditions in China: A case study of the Beijing-Shanghai corridor13
The impact of pollution information disclosure on household electricity consumption: Evidence from China13
Merit-order of dispatchable and variable renewable energy sources in Turkey's day-ahead electricity market13
Challenges of recycled water pricing13
On sharing the costs of public drinking water infrastructure renewal among users with different preferences13
Possible paths for Mexico's electricity system in the clean energy transition13
Is cognition of residential tiered pricing policy effective in reducing electricity consumption in China?13
Evidence of supply security and sustainability challenges in Nigeria’s power sector13
The impact of transparency policies on local flexibility markets in electric distribution networks13
Photovoltaic project investment based on the real options method: An analysis of the East China power grid region13
A novel TSO settlement scheme for the Frequency Containment Reserve Cooperation in Europe’s integrated electricity market13
Assessing the role of green finance in sustainable energy investments by power utilities: Evidence from China13
Enhancing financial efficiency and receivable collection in the water sector: Insights from structural equation modeling13
Insights from the N11 economies on drivers of the clean energy transition13
Alternative operational modes for Chinese PV poverty alleviation power stations: Economic impacts on stakeholders13
Defining and measuring active distribution system operators for the electricity and natural gas sectors12
Pragmatism as an approach for decision-making: Why two Kenyan water utilities opted for pre-paid water dispensers12
Better safe than sorry? Stated preferences and the precautionary principle for securing drinking water quality in an Italian district12
Editorial Board12
Public ownership and ESG policies: implications for firm productivity in local transportation12
Enhancing electricity distribution efficiency in Pakistan: A framework for progress and action12
How are public utilities responding to electricity market restructuring and the energy transition? Lessons from Israel12
Guiding electricity distribution system investments to improve service quality: A European study12
Does information intervention influence residential waste-source separation behavior?11
Community Energy in Germany – Bowling Alone in Elite Clubs?11
Understanding the variability of residential energy poverty in India11
Comparing multi-criteria models for ranking the Performance of India's water supply utilities11
Editorial Board11
Mitigating the risk of photovoltaic power generation: A complementarity model of solar irradiation in diverse regions applied to Brazil11
The status of and opportunities for utility-scale battery storage in Australia: A regulatory and market perspective11
Techno-economic assessment of residential PV system tariff policies in Jordan11
From pragmatic to politicized? The future of water remunicipalization in the United States11
Energy knowledge and public response to restarting nuclear plants in Japan following the fukushima accident11
Performance assessment of the Chilean water sector: A network data envelopment analysis approach11
Efficiency and productivity of renewable energy technologies: Evidence from U.S. investor-owned utilities across regional markets11
Rural-urban inequality in drinking water accessibility as a socioeconomic outcome in Nigeria11
Prepaid water meters and water distribution system improvement: A case study of Jenin city, Palestine10
Clean energy transition in the Turkish power sector: A techno-economic analysis with a high-resolution power expansion model10
Management control by municipal utilities for value creation to achieve the sustainable development goals10
An analysis of the interactions between daily electricity demand levels in France10
Waste heat inconsistencies in the EU's energy legislation10
The nexus between information technology and environmental pollution: Application of a new machine learning algorithm to OECD countries10
Does human capital complement sustainable development goals? Evidence from leading carbon emitter countries10
Tariff flags and electricity consumption response in Brazil10
Economics and policy implications of residential photovoltaic systems in Italy's developed market10
A time aggregation approach for reducing identifiability in household energy data10
Investment in vehicle-to-grid and distributed energy resources: Distributor versus prosumer perspectives and the impact of rate structures10
Clustered patterns of household water consumption in Portuguese municipalities: Do regional location and population trajectory matter?10
Promoting efficient district heating in Estonia10
Renewable energy project implementation: Will the Baltic States catch up with the Nordic countries?10
Driving industrial and economic growth in Central and Eastern Europe: The role of electricity infrastructure and renewable energy9
Forecasting renewable energy utilization by Iran's water and wastewater industries9
Analysis of hourly price granularity implementation in the Brazilian deregulated electricity contracting environment9
Structural efficiency assessment of regional airports: Lessons from India9
Risk disclosure in sustainability reports: Empirical evidence from the energy sector9
Effects of the circular economy, environmental policy, energy transition, and geopolitical risk on sustainable electricity generation9
Water sector resilience in the United Kingdom and Ireland: The COVID-19 challenge9
Consumer price effects of deregulated electric generation markets: The case of Ohio and the midwestern United States9
Design and implementation of a competitive framework for a day-ahead demand-response program in Iran9
Collaborative governance challenges in energy efficiency and conservation: The case of Pennsylvania9
Impact of vehicle charging on Portugal's national electricity load profile in 20309
Estimating production functions to determine the marginal economic value and price elasticity of water in the Chilean industrial sector9
A regulatory robust conditional approach to measuring the efficiency of wholesale water supply and wastewater treatment services9
Editorial Board9
How policies affect the cost-effectiveness of residential renewable energy in Iran: A techno-economic analysis for optimization8
Evaluation of the eco-efficiency of territorial districts with seaport economic activities8
Performance evaluation of China's photovoltaic poverty alleviation project using machine learning and satellite images8
Microgrid operation strategies considering government subsidies and user preferences based on evolutionary games8
Endogenous and exogenous sources of efficiency in the management of Turkish airports8
Assessing eco-productivity change in Chilean municipal solid waste services8
Market design options for electricity markets with high variable renewable generation8
Pathways to a sustainable electricity sector in Kenya: Challenges and transformational factors8
An experimental approach to measuring consumer preferences for water charges8
A clustering scheme for performance benchmarking in the regulation of electric distribution utilities in Iran8
Drivers and barriers to participation in Sweden's local flexibility markets for electricity8
Effectiveness of carbon emissions trading and renewable energy portfolio standards in the Chinese provincial and coupled electricity markets8
The corruption-emissions nexus: Do information and communication technologies make a difference?8
Malaysia’s electricity market structure in transition8
Administrative congestion management meets electricity network regulation: Aligning incentives between the renewable generators and network operator7
Awareness of coping costs and willingness to pay for urban drinking water service: Evidence from Lahore, Pakistan7
Circular economy in the water and wastewater sector: Tariff impact and financial performance of SMARTechs7
Does upgrading household consumption affect the eco-efficiency of China's solid waste management as measured by emissions?7
Decentralized wastewater system practices in developing countries: A systematic review7
Has benchmarking improved the performance of the Australian electricity distribution utilities? A meta-frontier model7
A robust benchmarking of direct margin in Italy's energy retail markets7
How demand-side management can shape electricity generation capacity planning7
Operational concerns and solutions in smart electricity distribution systems7
Embedding broader values in the regulatory model: An analysis of Ofgem's consumer value proposition for the natural gas distribution sector7
Evolutionary game theory-based system dynamics modeling for community solid waste classification in China7
Measuring the price impact of price-cap regulation among Canadian electricity distribution utilities7
Performance analytics for regulation in retail water utilities: Guiding asset management by identifying peers and targets7
Efficient resource utilization of the electricity distribution sector using nonparametric data envelopment analysis and influential factors7
Subsidized or subsidizing? Municipal drinking water service funds in California7
Communication strategies and consumer acceptance of utility-controlled heat pumps and electric vehicles7
Greater than the sum: On regulating innovation in electricity distribution networks with externalities7
Politico-economic determinants of the performance of electric cooperatives in the Philippines7
Household electricity demand in Latin America and the Caribbean: A meta-analysis of price elasticity7
Industrial electricity consumption efficiency and energy policy in Japan7
Efficiency benchmarking of Irish and North Atlantic Spanish ports: Implications for blue growth7
Household attitudes toward wastewater recycling in Saudi Arabia7
Pass-through in residential retail electricity competition: Evidence from Pennsylvania6
Stakeholder interaction in the digital transformation of China's electric power sector: An evolutionary game model6
Calculating the realized investment returns of U.S. electric utilities6
Determinants of water loss in Portuguese utilities6
Institutional and contextual drivers of and barriers to incentive-based demand response: A comparative case study in the Pacific Northwest6
IoT implementation for energy system sustainability: The role of actors and related challenges6
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]6
Dynamic demand response to electricity prices: Evidence from the Spanish retail market6
Enlarged scars: The effects of economic policy uncertainty on electricity accessibility and urban-rural disparity6
Designing a local flexibility market for buying back capacity from electricity consumers connected to the distribution network6
Factors affecting judicial review of regulatory appeals6
Demand for grid-supplied electricity in the presence of distributed solar energy resources: Evidence from New York City6
Real-life resilience: Exploring the organisational environment of international water utilities6
Public utility ownership and in-kind trade policy in vertically related markets6
Gauging energy poverty in developing countries with a composite metric of electricity access6
Editorial Board6
Turmoil in the Chilean electricity sector: A failed attempt at using advanced contracts for differences to support the energy transition?6
In-state generation requirements and the acceptability of renewable portfolio standards6
Forecasting short-term electricity load using hybrid support vector regression with grey catastrophe and random forest modeling6
Institutional diversity and safe drinking water provision in the United States6
Effective communication of time–of–use electricity tariffs: Plain and simple6
Does renewable energy development enhance energy security?6
Data integration in asset management of municipal pipe networks in Sweden: Challenges, gaps, and potential drivers5
Financial inclusion and energy poverty reduction in sub-Saharan Africa5
The diffusion of the utility tunnel policy: Evidence from Chinese cities5
The rhetoric of community participation in urban South African water governance5
A mechanism to overcome barriers to inter-provincial power supply substitution in China5
Smartening up: User experience with smart water metering infrastructure in an African city5
Sustainability disclosure and reporting by municipally owned water utilities5
Drivers of district heating's dominance in Sweden's urban areas: A historical perspective5
Can financial literacy Ease energy poverty? Some Lessons at the household level in China5
Editorial Board5
Determining factors affecting customer satisfaction of the national electric power company (MERALCO) during the COVID-19 pandemic in the Phillippines5
Multilevel governance, PV solar energy, and entrepreneurship: the generation of green hydrogen as a fuel of renewable origin5
Techno-economic analysis of a hybrid photovoltaic-wind-biomass-battery system for off-grid power in rural Guatemala5
Household water bill perception in Brazil5
Evolution of the EU legal framework for promoting RES-E: A market compatible paradigm shift?5
How environmental policy stringency affects renewable energy investment? Implications for green investment horizons5
Exploring customer satisfaction in Great Britain's retail energy sector Part I: The comparative use of Trustpilot online reviews in four sectors5
Human resource training to implement transmission schemes for renewable power evacuation in India5
The ideological stakes of deploying rural broadband in the U.S. state of Georgia5
Does the payment vehicle matter for valuing improved electricity reliability? A discrete choice experiment in Ethiopia5
Merchant investment in electricity transmission networks5
The digital economy and energy poverty in Central and Eastern Europe5
Effect of electricity price reform on households’ electricity consumption in urban Ethiopia5
Organizational models for the decommissioning of nuclear power plants: Lessons from the United Kingdom and the United States5
Alternative tariff structures and household composition: Evidence from Spain's Valencia region5
Generative literature analysis on the rise of prosumers and their influence on the sustainable energy transition5
Wholesale electricity market economics of solar generation in Israel5
Policy and legal frameworks for underground natural gas storage in Iran5
The effect of geopolitical risk and green technology on load capacity factors in BRICS5
Capital structure decisions in the energy transition: Insights from Spain4
Is the U.S. energy independence and Security Act of 2022 associated with stock market volatility?4
Valuing water service reliability and in-home water storage: A hedonic price model from Guatemala4
Why capacity market prices are too high4
Price and income elasticities of residential electricity demand in Brazil and policy implications4
Institutional change for the development of urban sanitation in the Global South: A social science review4
Path to clean and sustainable energy from nuclear and renewable sources: Evidence from France4
Stakeholder engagement by an Italian water utility company: Insight from participant observation of dialogism4
Evaluation index system for carbon information disclosure quality in China's electric power sector based on a mutual information and back propagation neural network model4
Oil prices and the renewable energy transition: Empirical evidence from China4
Sustainable development indicators for electric power generation companies in Ecuador: A case study4
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