Utilities Policy

Article	Citations
A bird's eye view of Ghana's renewable energy sector environment: A Multi-Criteria Decision-Making approach	191
The impact of digital technology usage on economic growth in Africa	107
Sustainable energy policy, socio-economic development, and ecological footprint: The economic significance of natural resources, population growth, and industrial development	103
Forecasting short-term electricity load using hybrid support vector regression with grey catastrophe and random forest modeling	102
Waste management, quality of life and natural resources utilization matter for renewable electricity generation: The main and moderate role of environmental policy	75
The nexus between information technology and environmental pollution: Application of a new machine learning algorithm to OECD countries	74
Sustainable green electricity, technological innovation, and ecological footprint: Does democratic accountability moderate the nexus?	50
Asymmetric impact of green bonds on energy efficiency: Fresh evidence from quantile estimation	49
Effects of income inequality and governance on energy poverty alleviation: Implications for sustainable development policy	45
Water governance models for meeting sustainable development Goals:A structured literature review	43
Public utility vehicle service quality and customer satisfaction in the Philippines during the COVID-19 pandemic	42
Heterogeneous analysis of energy consumption, financial development, and pollution in Africa: The relevance of regulatory quality	42
The corruption-emissions nexus: Do information and communication technologies make a difference?	37
Electricity from renewable energy resources: Sustainable energy transition and emissions for developed economies	36
Dynamic correlated effects of electricity prices, biomass energy, and technological innovation in Tunisia's energy transition	36
Data privacy and residential smart meters: Comparative analysis and harmonization potential	35
Public-private partnerships in the water sector: A review	34
Combining wind and solar energy sources: Potential for hybrid power generation in Brazil	33
Urban broadband infrastructure and green total-factor energy efficiency in China	33
Which states and cities protect residents from water shutoffs in the COVID-19 pandemic?	32
Sustainability reporting and ESG performance in the utilities sector	31
A multi-agent system approach to exploit demand-side flexibility in an energy community	31
An ensemble approach for electricity price forecasting in markets with renewable energy resources	30
Effects of corruption, technological innovation, globalisation, and renewable energy on carbon emissions in Asian countries	29
Integrating distributed energy resources in electricity distribution systems: An explorative study of challenges facing DSOs in Sweden	28

Energy crisis in Bangladesh: Challenges, progress, and prospects for alternative energy resources	26
The impact of the integration of renewable energy sources in the electricity price formation: is the Merit-Order Effect occurring in Portugal?	26
Remittances and energy poverty: Fresh evidence from developing countries	25
Transition to greener electricity and resource use impact on environmental quality: Policy based study from OECD countries	25
Assessing the impact of COVID-19 and safety parameters on energy project performance with an analytical hierarchy process	24
Evaluating the sustainability of China's power generation industry based on a matter-element extension model	23
Structural and operational management of Turkish airports: a bootstrap data envelopment analysis of efficiency	23
Community Energy in Germany – Bowling Alone in Elite Clubs?	23
How environmental policy stringency affects renewable energy investment? Implications for green investment horizons	22
Operational concerns and solutions in smart electricity distribution systems	21
Promoting the sustainable development of infrastructure projects through responsible innovation: An evolutionary game analysis	20
Performance benchmarking using composite indicators to support regulation of the Portuguese wastewater sector	20
Multilevel governance, PV solar energy, and entrepreneurship: the generation of green hydrogen as a fuel of renewable origin	19
Design of regional flexibility markets for electricity: A product classification framework for and application to German pilot projects	19
Does digital transformation improve the operational efficiency of Chinese power enterprises?	19
Impact of COVID-19 on water sector projects and practices	19
Sustainability disclosure and reporting by municipally owned water utilities	19
Service quality, technical efficiency and total factor productivity growth in Pakistan's post-reform electricity distribution companies	19
Estimating stranded coal assets in China's power sector	19
The potential of energy flexibility of space heating and cooling in Portugal	19
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	19
Developing a methodology to recover the cost of wastewater reuse: A proposal based on the polluter pays principle	19
On-street toilets for sanitation access in urban public spaces: A systematic review	18
The duck curve in a drying pond: The impact of rooftop PV on the Western Australian electricity market transition	18
Rainwater harvesting for domestic use: A systematic review and outlook from the utility policy and management perspectives	18
Governance, scale, scope: A review of six South African electricity generation infrastructure megaprojects	18
Understanding the socioeconomic and environmental indicators of household water treatment in Nigeria	18
Decentralized wastewater system practices in developing countries: A systematic review	17
Regulatory impact of photovoltaic prosumer policies in Brazil based on a financial risk analysis	17
Forecasting electricity consumption of OECD countries: A global machine learning modeling approach	17
Does human capital complement sustainable development goals? Evidence from leading carbon emitter countries	17
The impact of a subsidized tax deduction on residential solar photovoltaic-battery energy storage systems	16
Snapshot review of refuse-derived fuels	16
A conceptual construct on value for infrastructure asset management	16
Antecedents of customer loyalty and performance improvement: Evidence from Pakistan's telecommunications sector	16
A composite indicator for measuring the environmental performance of water, wastewater, and solid waste utilities	16
Institutional diversity and safe drinking water provision in the United States	16
Evaluating the ancillary services market for large-scale renewable energy integration in China's northeastern power grid	15
Efficacies of technological progress and renewable energy transition in amplifying national electrification rates: contextual evidence from developing countries	15
Effects of digital transformation on electricity sector growth and productivity: A study of thirteen industrialized economies	15
Do ESG factors improve utilities corporate efficiency and reduce the risk perceived by credit lending institutions? An empirical analysis	15
The diffusion of the utility tunnel policy: Evidence from Chinese cities	15
Household attitudes toward wastewater recycling in Saudi Arabia	15
Isomorphic mimicry and the effectiveness of water-sector reforms in Brazil	14
Climate change impacts on electricity demand: The case of a Southern European country	14
A system dynamics model to analyze future electricity supply and demand in Iran under alternative pricing policies	14
Interactive Time-of-use demand response for industrial electricity customers: A case study	14
Factors influencing residential water consumption in Wallonia, Belgium	14
The role of sustainable energy utility, natural resource utilization and waste management in reducing energy poverty: Evidence from South Asian countries	14
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	13

What will drive household adoption of smart energy? Insights from a consumer acceptance study in Germany	13
The efficiency of post-reform water utilities in Mexico	13
Biodiversity accountability in water utilities: A case study	13
Three decades of Indian power-sector reform:A critical assessment	13
Worldwide evidence of corporate governance influence on ESG disclosure in the utilities sector	13
Stakeholder engagement by an Italian water utility company: Insight from participant observation of dialogism	13
Stakeholder management mapping to improve public-private partnership success in emerging country water projects: Indonesia’s experience	13
Effects of the circular economy, environmental policy, energy transition, and geopolitical risk on sustainable electricity generation	12
Between illegal protests and legitimate resistance. Civil disobedience against energy infrastructures	12
Characterizing flexibility in power markets and systems	12
Demand response, market design and risk: A literature review	12
Environmental benefits of energy poverty alleviation, renewable resources, and urbanization in North Africa	12
A smart meter data-driven distribution utility rate model for networks with prosumers	12
Value of demand flexibility for providing ancillary services: A case for social housing in the Irish DS3 market	12
Accuracy of wind energy forecasts in Great Britain and prospects for improvement	12
Does market concentration affect wholesale electricity prices? An analysis of the Indian electricity sector in the COVID-19 pandemic context	12
Sustainability reporting and public value: Evidence from port authorities	12
The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic and behavioral restrictions on electricity consumption and the daily demand curve in Turkey	12
Success of local flexibility market implementation: A review of current projects	12
Understanding the governance of urban water services from an institutional logics perspective	12
Funding the green transition: Governance quality, public debt, and renewable energy consumption in Sub-Saharan Africa	12
Distributing power: Community energy movements claiming the grid in Berlin and Hamburg	12
Practical necessity and legal options for introducing energy regulatory sandboxes in Austria	11
Measuring the rebound effect: A case study of residential photovoltaic systems in San Diego	11
The flow-based market coupling domain - Why we can't get it right	11
Ownership and sustainability of Italian water utilities: The stakeholder role	11
Multi-criteria decision support: A case study of Southeast Europe power systems	11
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	11
Gauging energy poverty in developing countries with a composite metric of electricity access	11
District heating network ownership and prices: The case of an unregulated natural monopoly	11
Evaluation of the eco-efficiency of territorial districts with seaport economic activities	11
Sustainability policies to reduce pollution in energy supply and waste sectors in the V4 countries	11
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	11
Optimal policies for electromobility: Joint assessment of transport and electricity distribution costs in Norway	11
Evolutionary game theory-based system dynamics modeling for community solid waste classification in China	11
Guidance on the usability-privacy tradeoff for utility customer data aggregation	10
Efficiency benchmarking and remuneration of Spanish electricity distribution companies	10
Factors influencing customer satisfaction with water service quality in Chile	10
Evaluation of the multi-dimensional growth potential of China's public charging facilities for electric vehicles through 2030	10
Market design options for electricity markets with high variable renewable generation	10
Structural, governance, & regulatory incentives for improved utility performance: A comparative analysis of electric utilities in Tanzania, Kenya, and Uganda	10
Impact of external costs of unplanned supply interruptions on water company efficiency: Evidence from Chile	10
Underpinnings of consumer preferences and participation in Japan's liberalized energy market	10
A new way for comparing solutions to non-technical electricity losses in South America	10
Water systems in California: Ownership, geography, and affordability	10
Sustainable development indicators for electric power generation companies in Ecuador: A case study	10
Industrial electricity consumption efficiency and energy policy in Japan	9
Elasticity estimation and forecasting: An analysis of residential electricity demand in Brazil	9
Modified teaching-learning-based optimization by orthogonal learning for optimal design of an electric vehicle charging station	9
Drivers of microgrid projects in developed and developing economies	9
Fair allocation of wastewater discharge permits based on satisfaction criteria using data envelopment analysis	9
Designing circular economy-compliant municipal solid waste management charging schemes	9
Estimating the cost of equity for the regulated energy and infrastructure sectors in India	9
Business case analysis of hybrid systems consisting of battery storage and power-to-heat on the German energy market	9
From pragmatic to politicized? The future of water remunicipalization in the United States	9
An economic valuation model for alternative pressure management schemes in water distribution networks	9
Improvement of customer baselines for the evaluation of demand response through the use of physically-based load models	9
Awareness of coping costs and willingness to pay for urban drinking water service: Evidence from Lahore, Pakistan	9
Financial inclusion and energy poverty reduction in sub-Saharan Africa	9
Promoting energy inclusiveness: Is rural energy poverty a political failure?	9
Reinventing European air traffic control based on the covid-19 pandemic experience	9
The environmental impact of stock market capitalization and energy transition: Natural resource dynamics and international trade	8
Pittsburgh's translocal social movement: A case of the new public water	8
The status of and opportunities for utility-scale battery storage in Australia: A regulatory and market perspective	8
Residential solar power profitability with thermal energy storage and carbon-corrected electricity prices	8
How should price-responsive electricity tariffs evolve? An analysis of the German net demand case	8
Smartening up: User experience with smart water metering infrastructure in an African city	8
Is more competition better? Retail electricity prices and switching rates in the European Union	8
Guiding electricity distribution system investments to improve service quality: A European study	8
Learning in iterated consultation procedures – The example of the German electricity grid demand planning	8
Opportunities and challenges for small-scale flexibility in European electricity markets	8
Predicting residential electricity consumption patterns based on smart meter and household data: A case study from the Republic of Ireland	8
Risk-based optimization of the debt service schedule in renewable energy project finance	8
Supporting Sustainable Rural Groundwater Demand Management with Fuzzy Decision Analysis: A Case Study in Iran	8
Impacts of green deal policies on the Nordic power market	8
Governance choices and policy outcomes in the Latin American and caribbean electricity sector	8
Wind of change: Small-scale electricity production and distribution-grid efficiency in Sweden	7
Does the Ukrainian electricity market correspond to the european model?	7
Benchmarking the efficiency of natural gas distribution utilities in Italy considering size, ownership, and maturity	7
How price responsive is industrial demand for natural gas in the United States?	7

Do enterprise ownership structures affect financial performance in China's power and gas industries?	7
Effects of remittances on renewable energy consumption: Evidence from instrumental variable estimation with panel data	7
Achieving long-term renewable energy goals: Do intermediate targets matter?	7
Optimal microgrid programming based on an energy storage system, price-based demand response, and distributed renewable energy resources	7
Mitigating the risk of photovoltaic power generation: A complementarity model of solar irradiation in diverse regions applied to Brazil	7
Is the self-read water meter a pro-poor innovation? Evidence from a low-income settlement in Nairobi	7
Water company productivity change: A disaggregated approach accounting for changes in inputs and outputs	7
Investigating how board gender diversity affects environmental, social and governance performance: Evidence from the utilities sector	7
Towards a sustainable electricity grid: Market and policy for demand-side storage and wind resources	7
Assessing eco-productivity change in Chilean municipal solid waste services	7
Performance evaluation of China's photovoltaic poverty alleviation project using machine learning and satellite images	7
Distributed energy cost recovery for a fragile utility: The case of Électricité du Liban	7
Key issues in water privatization and remunicipalization	7
Water and sanitation governance between austerity and financialization	7
Accelerating safe small modular reactor development in Southeast Asia	7
Photovoltaic project investment based on the real options method: An analysis of the East China power grid region	7
Challenges of recycled water pricing	7
Service quality and the share of renewable energy in electricity generation	7
How policies affect the cost-effectiveness of residential renewable energy in Iran: A techno-economic analysis for optimization	7
Measuring Spanish airport performance: A bootstrap data envelopment analysis of efficiency	7
The efficiency of container terminals in the northern region of Brazil	7
Wholesale electricity market economics of solar generation in Israel	7
Public interest and early termination of PPP contracts. Can fair and reasonable compensations be determined?	7
Cybersecurity and resilience in the swiss electricity sector: Status and policy options	7
Trend-risk model for predicting non-revenue water: An application in Turkey	6
Influence of market structures on concession pricing in Public-Private-Partnership utilities with asymmetric information	6
Operating in the shadowland: Why water utilities fail to manage decaying infrastructure	6
Effectiveness of carbon emissions trading and renewable energy portfolio standards in the Chinese provincial and coupled electricity markets	6
The competitive performance of public-private partnership markets. The case of unsolicited proposals in Peru	6
Customer complaint management and smart technology adoption by community water systems	6
Evaluation of advanced control strategies of electric thermal storage systems in residential building stock	6
Poor accessibility of water utilities’ consumer confidence reports	6
Achieving sustainable development goal 7 in Africa: Does globalization matter for electricity access, renewable energy consumption, and energy efficiency?	6
Efficiency benchmarking of Irish and North Atlantic Spanish ports: Implications for blue growth	6
Implementing automated residential demand response in South Korea: Consumer preferences and market potential	6
Determinants of the economic performance of Brazilian electricity distributors	6
Economics and policy implications of residential photovoltaic systems in Italy's developed market	6
Optimizing Brazil's regulated electricity market in the context of time-of-use rates and prosumers with energy storage systems	6
How gender disparities in urban and rural areas influence access to safe drinking water	6
Regulating the electro-energetic use of natural gas by gas-to-wire offshore technology: Case study from Brazil	6
The Brazilian electricity market architecture: An analysis of instruments and misalignments	6
A data-driven approach to reduce electricity theft in developing countries	6
Smart metering interoperability issues and solutions: Taking inspiration from other ecosystems and sectors	6
Substitution of piped water and self-supplied groundwater: The case of residential water in South Africa	6
Spatiotemporal analysis of the impact of electric vehicle integration on Reykjavik's electrical system at the city and distribution system level	6
The scale effect in China's power grid sector from the perspective of malmquist total factor productivity analysis	6
A sustainability assessment of decentralized water supply systems in Bandung City, Indonesia	6
Congestion management in electricity distribution networks: Smart tariffs, local markets and direct control	5
Does renewable energy development enhance energy security?	5
Costs Impact of a Transition to Hydrogen-fueled Vehicles on the Spanish Power Sector	5
Shale gas production in China: A regional analysis of subsidies and suggestions for policy	5
Optimal grid tariffs with heterogeneous prosumers	5
Efficiency of water service management alternatives in Spain considering environmental factors	5
Structural distortion and the shortage of peak-load power resources in China: A screening curve approach and case study of Shandong Province	5
Open questions for public water management: Discussions from Uruguay's restatization process	5
Materiality investor perspectives on utilities’ ESG performance. An empirical analysis of ESG factors and cost of equity	5
Reliability and resilience in a regulated electricity market: Hong Kong under Typhoon Mangkhut	5
Toward equitable urban water supply and sanitation in Dar es Salaam: The dialectic relationship between policy-driven and everyday practices	5
Price and income elasticities of residential electricity demand in Brazil and policy implications	5
Do political links influence water prices? Determinants of water prices in Germany	5
Household electricity demand in Latin America and the Caribbean: A meta-analysis of price elasticity	5
Electricity production, government effectiveness eco-innovation, and public health: Novel findings in the context of sustainability policies	5
Efficient resource utilization of the electricity distribution sector using nonparametric data envelopment analysis and influential factors	5
Forecasting renewable energy utilization by Iran's water and wastewater industries	5
How (not) to solve local conflicts around alternative energy production: Six cases of siting decisions of Austrian wind power parks	5
Modeling unaccounted-for gas among residential natural gas consumers using a comprehensive fuzzy cognitive map	5
Challenges in the CO2 emissions of the Turkish power sector: Evidence from a two-level decomposition approach	5
Utility governance, incentives, and performance: Evidence from India's urban water sector	5
How can the concept of public value influence U.K. utility regulation?	5
Aligning stakeholder interests: How ‘appropriate’ technologies have become the accepted water infrastructure solutions for low-income areas	5
Evidence of supply security and sustainability challenges in Nigeria’s power sector	5
Cost efficiency of Tunisian water utility districts: Does heterogeneity matter?	5
Alternatives for improving energy security in Cape Verde	5
Determining factors affecting customer satisfaction of the national electric power company (MERALCO) during the COVID-19 pandemic in the Phillippines	5
Implementation of scarcity pricing without co-optimization in European energy-only balancing markets	5
Designing an electricity distribution reward-penalty scheme based on spatial reliability statistics	5
Multifaceted intra-city water system arrangements in California: Influences and implications for residents	4
Performance assessment of the Chilean water sector: A network data envelopment analysis approach	4
Iran's day-ahead electricity market: Structural assessment and solutions	4
Are Spanish ports efficient and profitable? A quantitative analysis	4
An analysis of adaptive planning capacity: The case of chilean water utilities	4
Malaysia’s electricity market structure in transition	4
Urban residential water and electricity consumption behavior: A systematic literature review	4
Alternative operational modes for Chinese PV poverty alleviation power stations: Economic impacts on stakeholders	4
Exploring the asymmetric impact of sustainability reporting on financial performance in the utilities sector: A longitudinal comparative analysis	4
Social equity implications of advanced water metering infrastructure	4
Measuring the productivity growth of Malaysia's water sector: Implications for regulatory reform	4
Endogenous and exogenous sources of efficiency in the management of Turkish airports	4
Strategies to reduce postal network access points: from demographic to spatial distribution criteria	4
Institutional work in the transformation of the German energy sector	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
Developing sustainable power systems by evaluating techno-economic, environmental, and social indicators from a system dynamics approach	4
A hybrid knowledge-based method for pipe renewal planning in Water Distribution Systems with limited data: Application to Iran	4
Performance analytics for regulation in retail water utilities: Guiding asset management by identifying peers and targets	4