Utilities Policy

Article	Citations
A bird's eye view of Ghana's renewable energy sector environment: A Multi-Criteria Decision-Making approach	181
The impact of digital technology usage on economic growth in Africa	93
Forecasting short-term electricity load using hybrid support vector regression with grey catastrophe and random forest modeling	92
Sustainable energy policy, socio-economic development, and ecological footprint: The economic significance of natural resources, population growth, and industrial development	82
Flexibility markets: Q&A with project pioneers	80
The nexus between information technology and environmental pollution: Application of a new machine learning algorithm to OECD countries	66
Geothermal energy in China: Status, challenges, and policy recommendations	58
Waste management, quality of life and natural resources utilization matter for renewable electricity generation: The main and moderate role of environmental policy	53
Asymmetric impact of green bonds on energy efficiency: Fresh evidence from quantile estimation	43
Sustainable green electricity, technological innovation, and ecological footprint: Does democratic accountability moderate the nexus?	40
Heterogeneous analysis of energy consumption, financial development, and pollution in Africa: The relevance of regulatory quality	39
Emergency preparedness after COVID-19: A review of policy statements in the U.S. water sector	37
Effects of income inequality and governance on energy poverty alleviation: Implications for sustainable development policy	37
Water governance models for meeting sustainable development Goals:A structured literature review	36
Public utility vehicle service quality and customer satisfaction in the Philippines during the COVID-19 pandemic	34
The corruption-emissions nexus: Do information and communication technologies make a difference?	33
Servant of too many masters: Residential water pricing and the challenge of sustainability	33
Dynamic correlated effects of electricity prices, biomass energy, and technological innovation in Tunisia's energy transition	33
Which states and cities protect residents from water shutoffs in the COVID-19 pandemic?	31
The case for state-level drinking water affordability programs: Conceptual and empirical evidence from California	30
Public-private partnerships in the water sector: A review	30
An ensemble approach for electricity price forecasting in markets with renewable energy resources	29
Data privacy and residential smart meters: Comparative analysis and harmonization potential	28
Electricity from renewable energy resources: Sustainable energy transition and emissions for developed economies	28
Combining wind and solar energy sources: Potential for hybrid power generation in Brazil	28

From business models to value networks and business ecosystems – What does it mean for the economics and governance of the transport system?	27
A multi-agent system approach to exploit demand-side flexibility in an energy community	27
Integrating distributed energy resources in electricity distribution systems: An explorative study of challenges facing DSOs in Sweden	27
The impact of the integration of renewable energy sources in the electricity price formation: is the Merit-Order Effect occurring in Portugal?	25
Urban broadband infrastructure and green total-factor energy efficiency in China	25
Assessing the impact of COVID-19 and safety parameters on energy project performance with an analytical hierarchy process	24
Sustainability reporting and ESG performance in the utilities sector	23
Policy mix of renewable portfolio standards, feed-in tariffs, and auctions in South Korea: Are three better than one?	23
Does public ownership of utilities matter for local government water policies?	21
Fighting fruitfully? Participation and conflict in the context of electricity grid extension in Germany	21
What rights and whose responsibilities in water? Revisiting the purpose and reassessing the value of water services tariffs	21
Promoting the sustainable development of infrastructure projects through responsible innovation: An evolutionary game analysis	20
Energy crisis in Bangladesh: Challenges, progress, and prospects for alternative energy resources	20
Structural and operational management of Turkish airports: a bootstrap data envelopment analysis of efficiency	20
Performance benchmarking using composite indicators to support regulation of the Portuguese wastewater sector	20
Sustainable energy pathways for land transport in Nigeria	20
The potential of energy flexibility of space heating and cooling in Portugal	19
Evaluating the sustainability of China's power generation industry based on a matter-element extension model	19
Effects of corruption, technological innovation, globalisation, and renewable energy on carbon emissions in Asian countries	19
Transition to greener electricity and resource use impact on environmental quality: Policy based study from OECD countries	19
Community Energy in Germany – Bowling Alone in Elite Clubs?	19
Developing a methodology to recover the cost of wastewater reuse: A proposal based on the polluter pays principle	18
The challenges of regulating water and sanitation tariffs under a three-level shared-authority federalism model: The case of Brazil	18
Impact of COVID-19 on water sector projects and practices	18
Remittances and energy poverty: Fresh evidence from developing countries	17
Operational concerns and solutions in smart electricity distribution systems	17
Design of regional flexibility markets for electricity: A product classification framework for and application to German pilot projects	17
Forecasting electricity consumption of OECD countries: A global machine learning modeling approach	17
Sustainability disclosure and reporting by municipally owned water utilities	17
Mapping renewable energy subsidy policy research published from 1997 to 2018: A scientometric review	17
Service quality, technical efficiency and total factor productivity growth in Pakistan's post-reform electricity distribution companies	16
Governance, scale, scope: A review of six South African electricity generation infrastructure megaprojects	16
Evaluation of the impact of the new Renewable Energy Directive 2018/2001 on third-party access to district heating networks to enforce the feed-in of industrial waste heat	16
Understanding the socioeconomic and environmental indicators of household water treatment in Nigeria	15
Sustainable tariffs for water and wastewater services	15
Regulatory impact of photovoltaic prosumer policies in Brazil based on a financial risk analysis	15
Multilevel governance, PV solar energy, and entrepreneurship: the generation of green hydrogen as a fuel of renewable origin	15
The duck curve in a drying pond: The impact of rooftop PV on the Western Australian electricity market transition	15
Effects of digital transformation on electricity sector growth and productivity: A study of thirteen industrialized economies	14
Estimating stranded coal assets in China's power sector	14
Institutional diversity and safe drinking water provision in the United States	14
A composite indicator for measuring the environmental performance of water, wastewater, and solid waste utilities	14
The diffusion of the utility tunnel policy: Evidence from Chinese cities	14
Household attitudes toward wastewater recycling in Saudi Arabia	14
Is the human right to water sufficiently protected in Spain? Affordability and governance concerns	14
The impact of a subsidized tax deduction on residential solar photovoltaic-battery energy storage systems	14
Does human capital complement sustainable development goals? Evidence from leading carbon emitter countries	14
Three decades of Indian power-sector reform:A critical assessment	13
The efficiency of post-reform water utilities in Mexico	13
Biodiversity accountability in water utilities: A case study	13

Snapshot review of refuse-derived fuels	13
Rainwater harvesting for domestic use: A systematic review and outlook from the utility policy and management perspectives	13
Has the latest global financial crisis changed the way road public-private partnerships are funded? A comparison of Europe and Latin America	13
Decentralized wastewater system practices in developing countries: A systematic review	13
Evaluating the ancillary services market for large-scale renewable energy integration in China's northeastern power grid	12
Stakeholder engagement by an Italian water utility company: Insight from participant observation of dialogism	12
Distributing power: Community energy movements claiming the grid in Berlin and Hamburg	12
A conceptual construct on value for infrastructure asset management	12
Isomorphic mimicry and the effectiveness of water-sector reforms in Brazil	12
Between illegal protests and legitimate resistance. Civil disobedience against energy infrastructures	12
On-street toilets for sanitation access in urban public spaces: A systematic review	12
Antecedents of customer loyalty and performance improvement: Evidence from Pakistan's telecommunications sector	12
Efficacies of technological progress and renewable energy transition in amplifying national electrification rates: contextual evidence from developing countries	12
Interactive Time-of-use demand response for industrial electricity customers: A case study	12
Do ESG factors improve utilities corporate efficiency and reduce the risk perceived by credit lending institutions? An empirical analysis	12
How environmental policy stringency affects renewable energy investment? Implications for green investment horizons	12
Determinants of efficiency improvement in the Spanish public lighting sector	12
The effect of household income on residential wastewater output: Evidence from urban China	11
Measuring the rebound effect: A case study of residential photovoltaic systems in San Diego	11
Does digital transformation improve the operational efficiency of Chinese power enterprises?	11
Climate change impacts on electricity demand: The case of a Southern European country	11
The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic and behavioral restrictions on electricity consumption and the daily demand curve in Turkey	11
A system dynamics model to analyze future electricity supply and demand in Iran under alternative pricing policies	11
Global energy market dynamics and natural gas development in the Eastern Mediterranean region	11
A smart meter data-driven distribution utility rate model for networks with prosumers	11
Value of demand flexibility for providing ancillary services: A case for social housing in the Irish DS3 market	11
Determinants of access to improved water sources: Meeting the MDGs	11
Understanding the governance of urban water services from an institutional logics perspective	11
Temporal aggregation: Time use methodologies applied to residential electricity demand	11
Multi-criteria decision support: A case study of Southeast Europe power systems	10
Factors influencing residential water consumption in Wallonia, Belgium	10
Characterizing flexibility in power markets and systems	10
What will drive household adoption of smart energy? Insights from a consumer acceptance study in Germany	10
Stakeholder management mapping to improve public-private partnership success in emerging country water projects: Indonesia’s experience	10
Barriers to extending piped water distribution networks: The case of Ekiti State, Nigeria	10
Guidance on the usability-privacy tradeoff for utility customer data aggregation	10
Accuracy of wind energy forecasts in Great Britain and prospects for improvement	10
Sensitivity analysis of the carbon payback time for a Brazilian photovoltaic power plant	10
Demand response, market design and risk: A literature review	10
Sustainability reporting and public value: Evidence from port authorities	10
Evaluation of the eco-efficiency of territorial districts with seaport economic activities	10
Regulating sanitation services in sub-saharan africa: An overview of the regulation of emptying and transport of faecal sludge in 20 cities and its implementation	10
Impact of external costs of unplanned supply interruptions on water company efficiency: Evidence from Chile	10
District heating network ownership and prices: The case of an unregulated natural monopoly	10
The role of sustainable energy utility, natural resource utilization and waste management in reducing energy poverty: Evidence from South Asian countries	10
Underpinnings of consumer preferences and participation in Japan's liberalized energy market	10
Sustainability policies to reduce pollution in energy supply and waste sectors in the V4 countries	9
A new way for comparing solutions to non-technical electricity losses in South America	9
Efficiency benchmarking and remuneration of Spanish electricity distribution companies	9
A critical review of Korea's long-term contract for renewable energy auctions: The relationship between the import price of liquefied natural gas and system marginal price	9
Optimal policies for electromobility: Joint assessment of transport and electricity distribution costs in Norway	9
Estimating the cost of equity for the regulated energy and infrastructure sectors in India	9
Designing circular economy-compliant municipal solid waste management charging schemes	9
Market design options for electricity markets with high variable renewable generation	9
Modified teaching-learning-based optimization by orthogonal learning for optimal design of an electric vehicle charging station	9
Factors influencing customer satisfaction with water service quality in Chile	9
From pragmatic to politicized? The future of water remunicipalization in the United States	9
Evaluation of the multi-dimensional growth potential of China's public charging facilities for electric vehicles through 2030	9
Evolutionary game theory-based system dynamics modeling for community solid waste classification in China	9
The influence of governance on the implementation of Public-Private Partnerships in the United Kingdom and China: A systematic comparison	9
Environmental benefits of energy poverty alleviation, renewable resources, and urbanization in North Africa	9
Practical necessity and legal options for introducing energy regulatory sandboxes in Austria	9
Effects of the circular economy, environmental policy, energy transition, and geopolitical risk on sustainable electricity generation	9
Water systems in California: Ownership, geography, and affordability	9
Funding the green transition: Governance quality, public debt, and renewable energy consumption in Sub-Saharan Africa	9
Fair allocation of wastewater discharge permits based on satisfaction criteria using data envelopment analysis	9
Improvement of customer baselines for the evaluation of demand response through the use of physically-based load models	9
Elasticity estimation and forecasting: An analysis of residential electricity demand in Brazil	9
Learning in iterated consultation procedures – The example of the German electricity grid demand planning	8
Dealing with attributes in a discrete choice experiment on valuation of water services in East Peninsular Malaysia	8
Awareness of coping costs and willingness to pay for urban drinking water service: Evidence from Lahore, Pakistan	8
The flow-based market coupling domain - Why we can't get it right	8
Risk-based optimization of the debt service schedule in renewable energy project finance	8
Residential solar power profitability with thermal energy storage and carbon-corrected electricity prices	8
Ownership and sustainability of Italian water utilities: The stakeholder role	8
Wind power development in the Belt and Road area of Xinjiang, China: Problems and solutions	8
Supporting Sustainable Rural Groundwater Demand Management with Fuzzy Decision Analysis: A Case Study in Iran	8
Do mergers and acquisitions create shareholder value in the infrastructure and utility sectors? Analysis of market perceptions	8
Does market concentration affect wholesale electricity prices? An analysis of the Indian electricity sector in the COVID-19 pandemic context	8
An economic valuation model for alternative pressure management schemes in water distribution networks	8

Smartening up: User experience with smart water metering infrastructure in an African city	8
Pittsburgh's translocal social movement: A case of the new public water	8
How policies affect the cost-effectiveness of residential renewable energy in Iran: A techno-economic analysis for optimization	7
Assessing eco-productivity change in Chilean municipal solid waste services	7
The environmental impact of stock market capitalization and energy transition: Natural resource dynamics and international trade	7
Success of local flexibility market implementation: A review of current projects	7
Service quality and the share of renewable energy in electricity generation	7
Water company productivity change: A disaggregated approach accounting for changes in inputs and outputs	7
Industrial electricity consumption efficiency and energy policy in Japan	7
How price responsive is industrial demand for natural gas in the United States?	7
Key issues in water privatization and remunicipalization	7
Water and sanitation governance between austerity and financialization	7
Impacts of green deal policies on the Nordic power market	7
Reinventing European air traffic control based on the covid-19 pandemic experience	7
Governance choices and policy outcomes in the Latin American and caribbean electricity sector	7
Towards a sustainable electricity grid: Market and policy for demand-side storage and wind resources	7
Worldwide evidence of corporate governance influence on ESG disclosure in the utilities sector	7
Business case analysis of hybrid systems consisting of battery storage and power-to-heat on the German energy market	7
Public interest and early termination of PPP contracts. Can fair and reasonable compensations be determined?	7
Is the self-read water meter a pro-poor innovation? Evidence from a low-income settlement in Nairobi	7
Sustainable development indicators for electric power generation companies in Ecuador: A case study	7
Regulatory changes to Portugal's social tariffs: Carrying water in a sieve?	7
The status of and opportunities for utility-scale battery storage in Australia: A regulatory and market perspective	6
A framework for electric vehicle power supply chain development	6
Performance evaluation of China's photovoltaic poverty alleviation project using machine learning and satellite images	6
Distributed energy cost recovery for a fragile utility: The case of Électricité du Liban	6
The efficiency of container terminals in the northern region of Brazil	6
Mitigating the risk of photovoltaic power generation: A complementarity model of solar irradiation in diverse regions applied to Brazil	6
Guiding electricity distribution system investments to improve service quality: A European study	6
External benefits calculation of sharing electric vehicles in case of Chongqing China	6
Opportunities and challenges for small-scale flexibility in European electricity markets	6
A strategy to enhance management of free basic water via communal taps in South Africa	6
Federal financial resources for disaster mitigation and resilience in the U.S. water sector	6
Predicting residential electricity consumption patterns based on smart meter and household data: A case study from the Republic of Ireland	6
A sustainability assessment of decentralized water supply systems in Bandung City, Indonesia	6
Gauging energy poverty in developing countries with a composite metric of electricity access	6
Implementing automated residential demand response in South Korea: Consumer preferences and market potential	6
How should price-responsive electricity tariffs evolve? An analysis of the German net demand case	6
Do enterprise ownership structures affect financial performance in China's power and gas industries?	6
Regional electricity demand and economic transition in China	6
Achieving long-term renewable energy goals: Do intermediate targets matter?	6
Wholesale electricity market economics of solar generation in Israel	6
The scale effect in China's power grid sector from the perspective of malmquist total factor productivity analysis	5
Trend-risk model for predicting non-revenue water: An application in Turkey	5
Investigating how board gender diversity affects environmental, social and governance performance: Evidence from the utilities sector	5
Does the Ukrainian electricity market correspond to the european model?	5
Optimal grid tariffs with heterogeneous prosumers	5
Operating in the shadowland: Why water utilities fail to manage decaying infrastructure	5
Structural distortion and the shortage of peak-load power resources in China: A screening curve approach and case study of Shandong Province	5
Balancing-market design and opportunity cost: The Swiss case	5
Open questions for public water management: Discussions from Uruguay's restatization process	5
Optimal microgrid programming based on an energy storage system, price-based demand response, and distributed renewable energy resources	5
How gender disparities in urban and rural areas influence access to safe drinking water	5
Tariff (un)sustainability in contexts of price (in)stability: The case of the Buenos Aires water and sanitation concession	5
Integration of Demand Response in Electricity Market Capacity Mechanisms	5
Influence of market structures on concession pricing in Public-Private-Partnership utilities with asymmetric information	5
Evidence of supply security and sustainability challenges in Nigeria’s power sector	5
The Brazilian electricity market architecture: An analysis of instruments and misalignments	5
Electricity production, government effectiveness eco-innovation, and public health: Novel findings in the context of sustainability policies	5
Smart metering interoperability issues and solutions: Taking inspiration from other ecosystems and sectors	5
Alternatives for improving energy security in Cape Verde	5
How (not) to solve local conflicts around alternative energy production: Six cases of siting decisions of Austrian wind power parks	5
Drivers of microgrid projects in developed and developing economies	5
Understanding the role of efficiency in the electricity generation process for promoting human development in India: Findings from the novel multiple threshold nonlinear ARDL modelling	5
Cybersecurity and resilience in the swiss electricity sector: Status and policy options	5
Aligning stakeholder interests: How ‘appropriate’ technologies have become the accepted water infrastructure solutions for low-income areas	5
Photovoltaic project investment based on the real options method: An analysis of the East China power grid region	5
Shale gas production in China: A regional analysis of subsidies and suggestions for policy	5
Wind of change: Small-scale electricity production and distribution-grid efficiency in Sweden	5
Benchmarking the efficiency of natural gas distribution utilities in Italy considering size, ownership, and maturity	5
Substitution of piped water and self-supplied groundwater: The case of residential water in South Africa	5
Economics and policy implications of residential photovoltaic systems in Italy's developed market	5
Measuring Spanish airport performance: A bootstrap data envelopment analysis of efficiency	5
Is more competition better? Retail electricity prices and switching rates in the European Union	5
Performance assessment of the Chilean water sector: A network data envelopment analysis approach	4
Multifaceted intra-city water system arrangements in California: Influences and implications for residents	4
Changes in the total costs of the English and Welsh water and sewerage industry: The decomposed effect of price and quantity inputs on efficiency	4
Can privatization of distribution substations improve electricity reliability for non-residential customers? An application to Nepal	4
Endogenous and exogenous sources of efficiency in the management of Turkish airports	4
Efficient resource utilization of the electricity distribution sector using nonparametric data envelopment analysis and influential factors	4
Costs Impact of a Transition to Hydrogen-fueled Vehicles on the Spanish Power Sector	4
Accelerating safe small modular reactor development in Southeast Asia	4
Price and income elasticities of residential electricity demand in Brazil and policy implications	4
Household electricity demand in Latin America and the Caribbean: A meta-analysis of price elasticity	4
Are Spanish ports efficient and profitable? A quantitative analysis	4
Cost efficiency of Tunisian water utility districts: Does heterogeneity matter?	4
Strategies to reduce postal network access points: from demographic to spatial distribution criteria	4
Regulating the electro-energetic use of natural gas by gas-to-wire offshore technology: Case study from Brazil	4
How can the concept of public value influence U.K. utility regulation?	4
Do political links influence water prices? Determinants of water prices in Germany	4
Efficiency benchmarking of Irish and North Atlantic Spanish ports: Implications for blue growth	4
Measuring the productivity growth of Malaysia's water sector: Implications for regulatory reform	4
A data-driven approach to reduce electricity theft in developing countries	4
An analysis of adaptive planning capacity: The case of chilean water utilities	4
Utility governance, incentives, and performance: Evidence from India's urban water sector	4