Utilities Policy

Article	Citations
Editorial Board	289
Ways to promote investments in sustainable energy utilities in the central Asian regional economic cooperation program region	118
Assessing the effect of increasing block tariffs for residential natural gas in Hefei City, China	90
Designing circular economy-compliant municipal solid waste management charging schemes	86
Bottled water or filtered tap water? A nexus-based sustainability assessment for Qatar	78
Opportunities and challenges for small-scale flexibility in European electricity markets	77
How do European Union electric utilities contribute to the Sustainable Development Goals? Empirical insights on reporting and management control practices	71
Excess demand or excess supply? A comparison of renewable energy certificate markets in the United Kingdom and Australia	70
Convergence dynamics of urban and rural electricity access rates across African countries	67
Command and control: A systematic approach to demand-side flexibility	64
Agent-based modeling to assess the effects of time-of-use water tariffs on social equity	61
Assessing the relationship between electricity theft and customer payment habits: A machine-learning approach	61
An overview of Brazil's electricity market: Planning, dispatch models, pricing, and modernization	61
Household energy poverty and personal time allocation: Empirical evidence from China	59
Addressing low-quality electricity service for low-income consumers: Empirical evidence from Brazil	59
Navigating the transition: The impacts of electricity tariff regulation on distributed generation in Brazil	57
Measuring energy poverty in Argentina: The relevance of regional disparities and policies	56
Feasibility analysis of implementing an On Bill Financing program to promote energy-efficiency in Dubai-UAE	52
Household access to the public electricity grid in Cameroon: Analysis of connection determinants	52
Good governance and energy justice: Pathways to human development	48
Outage-induced power backup choice in Pakistan	47
Exploratory analysis of the water governance frameworks regarding the OECD principles in two river basins in Brazil and Portugal	46
Development and application of regional urban water security indicators	45
Assessing the integration of planning instruments for urban land use and water service	44
A mixed-method analysis of New Zealand's smart meter rollout experience	44

Technological innovation and energy efficiency in central Eastern European countries	43
An integrated model for electricity market coupling simulations: Evidence from the European power market crossroad	38
A fair grid connection cost-sharing model for electricity based on the random forest machine learning method	36
Cybersecurity and resilience in the swiss electricity sector: Status and policy options	36
Editorial Board	36
The electrification-social development nexus in Bangladesh: Do governmental policies matter?	36
Is China's energy transition pace driven by the supply-side or the demand-side?	36
A system dynamics framework to formulate energy policies for sustainable development in Ethiopia	35
Inflation effects of oil and gas prices in the UK: Symmetries and asymmetries	32
An experiment in own-price elasticity estimation for non-residential electricity demand in the U.S.	31
Editorial Board	30
The effect of temperatures on household electricity consumption in northern China: Evidence from smart meters	30
Is more competition better? Retail electricity prices and switching rates in the European Union	28
Techno-economic optimization of PV-battery systems in five Australian states	28
Is it all about supply? Demand-side effects on the Spanish electricity market following Covid-19 lockdown policies	28
Energy resource productivity and environmental quality: A quantile-on-quantile study of Latin America from 1990 to 2022	28
Renewable energy communities and the ecological transition: A game theoretic bargaining approach	27
Screening for collusion in wholesale electricity markets: A literature review	27
Policy and regulatory challenges in decentralised renewable energy deployment: Case studies from Nigeria, Liberia, and Malawi	27
Transforming marginal-cost pricing: A blockchain approach to fundamental energy system dynamics	26
Financial statement comparability and earnings management under alternative standards: A study of Brazilian electrification cooperatives	26
Subsidizing solar energy in Indonesia: Evaluating the fossil fuel depletion premium as a revenue-neutral policy tool	26
Subnational perspectives on energy transition pathways for Mexico's electricity grid	25
A sustainability assessment of decentralized water supply systems in Bandung City, Indonesia	25
Service quality performance indicators for electricity distribution in Brazil	25
Urban broadband infrastructure and green total-factor energy efficiency in China	25
Evolution of smart grid cybersecurity: toward a systematic framework for collaborative and sustainable development	25
Editorial Board	24
Editorial Board	24
Open Water: Impacts of Retail Competition on Service Performance and Water-Use Efficiency in England	24
Comparative analysis of energy poverty definition and measurement in Portugal and Spain	24
Regulating electricity spot markets during extreme events: The 2021 Texas case	23
Does district heating affect residential property prices? Case study of an urban area in South Korea	22
Determinants of financial performance and sustainability in Namibia's electricity distribution sector	22
A lifecycle-based indicator to support residual solid waste flow planning at the regional level	21
Asymmetric impact of green bonds on energy efficiency: Fresh evidence from quantile estimation	21
Regulatory pathways to a net-zero electricity system in Alberta	21
Customer complaint management and smart technology adoption by community water systems	21
Electricity system resilience: An integrated bibliometric and systematic literature review	21
Detection of unauthorized consumption in water supply systems: A case study using logistic regression	21
The distributional effects of rural electrification on household welfare: Evidence from Senegal	21
Policy note: Mobilising private capital for European grids	21
Influence of population mobility on electricity consumption in seven U.S. cities during the COVID-19 pandemic	20
A case study of financing zero-emission power-to-gas technologies in Spain	20
Beyond coverage: Unveiling income and spatial inequalities in access to water and sanitation services in Chile	19
Incorporating nonrevenue water in the efficiency assessment of water supply utilities: A parametric enhanced hyperbolic distance function	19
Transition to greener electricity and resource use impact on environmental quality: Policy based study from OECD countries	19
Forecasting of Türkiye's net electricity consumption with metaheuristic algorithms	19
Modelling features and outcomes of Brazil's electricity tariff flag program	18
Improving asset management in capital-intensive industries: Case study of a Portuguese water utility	18

Assessing water conservation behaviour of India's urban households	18
Assessing the public-private partnership handover: Experience from China's water sector	18
New avenues for community solar adoption research: A qualitative comparative analysis of ten U.S. states	17
Socioeconomic drivers of residential electricity expenditures in India	17
China's textbook approach to regulatory reform of the natural gas market	17
Income elasticity of electricity demand in the context of Portugal’s energy transition	17
Solving electric power distribution uncertainty using deep learning and incentive-based demand response	17
Editorial Board	16
Environmental benefits of energy poverty alleviation, renewable resources, and urbanization in North Africa	16
Drivers of mobile broadband pricing: Cross-national evidence on policy and market dynamics	16
Management efficiency of Chinese toll road operating companies and influencing factors	16
Waste management, quality of life and natural resources utilization matter for renewable electricity generation: The main and moderate role of environmental policy	16
Regulatory analysis of E-mobility for Brazil: A comparative review and outlook	16
Are Brazilian water auction prices affordable for vulnerable families?	16
No-queue road pricing: A comprehensive policy instrument for Europe?	16
Water poverty in a ‘Hydro Nation’: Exploring distributional and recognitional water injustice in Scotland	16
Integrating demand forecasting and deep reinforcement learning for real-time electric vehicle charging price optimization	15
Impact of Spanish renewable support scheme reforms on the revenues of photovoltaic power plants	15
Network optimization and deployment for carbon capture and storage in China's coal-fired power plants	15
Transition mapping for modern energy service provision under uncertainty: A case study from Brazil	15
Governance and market dynamics of P2P energy trading: Enhancing national strategies in Malaysia and Thailand	15
Energy citizenship in northern Ghana: drivers of community engagement in the sustainable energy transitions	14
A multi-criteria model for measuring the sustainability orientation of Italian water utilities	14
Efficient firms are all alike, but every inefficient firm is such in its own way: Heterogeneity of costs determinants in the Italian water sector	14
Spatial analysis of energy communities and energy vulnerabilities in Spain	14
Seeing more than reading:The visual mode in utilities' sustainability reports	14
Water democracy under European Union law: Requiring participatory services management	14
Agent-based modeling of residential photovoltaic adoption and diffusion: Implications for energy policy design	14
Can bureaucrats change light bulbs? Institutional constraints of energy poverty alleviation programs in Taiwan	14
A note on hydropower as a marginal price setter for Spain's electricity market in 2021–2022	14
Measuring energy poverty by estimating the income elasticity of energy demand: An application to Kazakhstan	14
Efficiency of water service management alternatives in Spain considering environmental factors	14
A novel TSO settlement scheme for the Frequency Containment Reserve Cooperation in Europe’s integrated electricity market	13
Motivating residents to save water based on the model of goal-directed behavior: Evidence from China	13
The impact of pollution information disclosure on household electricity consumption: Evidence from China	13
Is cognition of residential tiered pricing policy effective in reducing electricity consumption in China?	13
The evolution of competitiveness in the Chilean mobile market	13
Challenges of recycled water pricing	13
Editorial Board	13
Photovoltaic project investment based on the real options method: An analysis of the East China power grid region	12
Enhancing financial efficiency and receivable collection in the water sector: Insights from structural equation modeling	12
Assessing the role of green finance in sustainable energy investments by power utilities: Evidence from China	12
Do publicly owned companies have lower district heating prices? An empirical analysis for Germany	12
Corporate transitioning to electric vehicle fleets: charging tariffs, total cost of ownership, and the potential for load flexibility	12
Evidence of supply security and sustainability challenges in Nigeria’s power sector	12
Merit-order of dispatchable and variable renewable energy sources in Turkey's day-ahead electricity market	12
Common risk factors for Latin American electric utilities	12
The impact of transparency policies on local flexibility markets in electric distribution networks	12
A SWOT analysis for the evolution of Brazil’s renewable energy sector	12
Efficiency and market power analysis of alternative reserve market design proposals: a case study of Greece	11
Renewable R&D investments and carbon emissions in G7 countries: The mediating roles of technology and economic efficiency	11
Insights from the N11 economies on drivers of the clean energy transition	11
Shaping electricity end-user behaviour for demand response using the COM-B model	11
Defining and measuring active distribution system operators for the electricity and natural gas sectors	11
Possible paths for Mexico's electricity system in the clean energy transition	11
On sharing the costs of public drinking water infrastructure renewal among users with different preferences	11
Retail electricity markets in Europe: Taking stock, looking ahead	11
Better safe than sorry? Stated preferences and the precautionary principle for securing drinking water quality in an Italian district	11
Pragmatism as an approach for decision-making: Why two Kenyan water utilities opted for pre-paid water dispensers	11
Editorial Board	11
Enhancing energy transition in Egypt: The roles of water resources and digitalization	11
Alternative operational modes for Chinese PV poverty alleviation power stations: Economic impacts on stakeholders	11
Household acceptance of solar water heaters in South Africa: An expectancy-disconfirmation model	11
Does information intervention influence residential waste-source separation behavior?	11
Rural-urban inequality in drinking water accessibility as a socioeconomic outcome in Nigeria	10
Enhancing electricity distribution efficiency in Pakistan: A framework for progress and action	10
Optimal energy management system for a community microgrid: A case study from the Gambia	10
Comparing multi-criteria models for ranking the Performance of India's water supply utilities	10
Guiding electricity distribution system investments to improve service quality: A European study	10
Clustered patterns of household water consumption in Portuguese municipalities: Do regional location and population trajectory matter?	10
Toward a human-centered energy transition: Concepts, models, challenges, and research opportunities	10
Scalable fairness shaping with LLM-guided multi-agent reinforcement learning for peer-to-peer electricity markets	10
Does human capital complement sustainable development goals? Evidence from leading carbon emitter countries	10
Economics of utility-scale batteries in Romania under various market conditions	10
Understanding the variability of residential energy poverty in India	10
Rethinking electricity demand-side response: Relational approaches to the challenge of residential flexibility in Italy	10
Techno-economic assessment of residential PV system tariff policies in Jordan	10
Prepaid water meters and water distribution system improvement: A case study of Jenin city, Palestine	10
Replacing conventional energy resources with wind: An integrated economic, environmental, and social assessment	10
Investment in vehicle-to-grid and distributed energy resources: Distributor versus prosumer perspectives and the impact of rate structures	10

Public ownership and ESG policies: implications for firm productivity in local transportation	10
Modeling the impact of electric vehicle charging on Lisbon's electricity distribution network	10
How are public utilities responding to electricity market restructuring and the energy transition? Lessons from Israel	10
Efficiency and productivity of renewable energy technologies: Evidence from U.S. investor-owned utilities across regional markets	10
Internalizing CO2 emissions in Spanish port efficiency analysis: A stochastic frontier approach with policy insights	10
Energy knowledge and public response to restarting nuclear plants in Japan following the fukushima accident	10
A bi-level multi-objective optimization model for cross-provincial transfer fees to promote cooperation in renewable energy consumption	10
Clean energy transition in the Turkish power sector: A techno-economic analysis with a high-resolution power expansion model	9
Tariff flags and electricity consumption response in Brazil	9
Driving industrial and economic growth in Central and Eastern Europe: The role of electricity infrastructure and renewable energy	9
Risk disclosure in sustainability reports: Empirical evidence from the energy sector	9
A time aggregation approach for reducing identifiability in household energy data	9
Implementing energy sharing in energy communities: A comparative legal analysis of Austria and Flanders	9
Waste heat inconsistencies in the EU's energy legislation	9
Collaborative governance challenges in energy efficiency and conservation: The case of Pennsylvania	9
Decision-making by power generators with alternative carbon allowance trading pathways: A case study of China	9
Management control by municipal utilities for value creation to achieve the sustainable development goals	9
The intertemporal unfairness of the feed-in tariff scheme in the United Kingdom: Catching up across regions	9
Economics and policy implications of residential photovoltaic systems in Italy's developed market	9
Renewable energy investment in China's new demonstration cities: A quasi-natural experiment	9
Digital infrastructure investment and carbon emissions reduction based on the Broadband China policy	8
European and US approaches to energy poverty: Classifying and evaluating design strategies	8
Structural efficiency assessment of regional airports: Lessons from India	8
Performance evaluation of China's photovoltaic poverty alleviation project using machine learning and satellite images	8
Effects of relaxing South Korea's increasing-block electricity pricing structure on residential consumers	8
Administrative congestion management meets electricity network regulation: Aligning incentives between the renewable generators and network operator	8
A clustering scheme for performance benchmarking in the regulation of electric distribution utilities in Iran	8
Water sector resilience in the United Kingdom and Ireland: The COVID-19 challenge	8
Positive or negative? A study on the synergistic effectiveness of policy interventions on residential waste minimization behavior in China	8
Effectiveness of carbon emissions trading and renewable energy portfolio standards in the Chinese provincial and coupled electricity markets	8
Renewable energy project implementation: Will the Baltic States catch up with the Nordic countries?	8
Local flexibility markets based on grid segmentation	8
Local willingness to fund climate-resilient water utilities in a tourism-dependent region of Indonesia	8
Assessing eco-productivity change in Chilean municipal solid waste services	8
Endogenous and exogenous sources of efficiency in the management of Turkish airports	8
Design and implementation of a competitive framework for a day-ahead demand-response program in Iran	8
An experimental approach to measuring consumer preferences for water charges	8
Politico-economic determinants of the performance of electric cooperatives in the Philippines	8
Microgrid operation strategies considering government subsidies and user preferences based on evolutionary games	8
The sustainable economic growth implications of expanding the electricity network: can early investment reduce consumer costs and support greater GDP and jobs gains?	8
A regulatory robust conditional approach to measuring the efficiency of wholesale water supply and wastewater treatment services	8
Effects of the circular economy, environmental policy, energy transition, and geopolitical risk on sustainable electricity generation	8
An analysis of the interactions between daily electricity demand levels in France	8
The impact of the delegated management model of urban piped service delivery on water quality in Kisumu, Kenya	8
Analysis of hourly price granularity implementation in the Brazilian deregulated electricity contracting environment	8
Efficient resource utilization of the electricity distribution sector using nonparametric data envelopment analysis and influential factors	8
Appraising spatial inequalities in urban water access in African cities by means of GIS clustering: insights from Malabo, Equatorial Guinea	8
Performance analytics for regulation in retail water utilities: Guiding asset management by identifying peers and targets	8
Drivers and barriers to participation in Sweden's local flexibility markets for electricity	8
Consumer price effects of deregulated electric generation markets: The case of Ohio and the midwestern United States	8
Forecasting renewable energy utilization by Iran's water and wastewater industries	8
Privatization pathways in Brazilian water utilities: The role of financial standing	8
Estimating production functions to determine the marginal economic value and price elasticity of water in the Chilean industrial sector	8
Communication strategies and consumer acceptance of utility-controlled heat pumps and electric vehicles	7
Industrial electricity consumption efficiency and energy policy in Japan	7
Governmental response to public complaints about solid waste sorting in China: Evidence from quasi-natural experiments	7
Circular economy in the water and wastewater sector: Tariff impact and financial performance of SMARTechs	7
Pass-through in residential retail electricity competition: Evidence from Pennsylvania	7
The impact of variable renewables on price dynamics within wholesale electricity markets	7
Analytical study of the operation and needs of Benin Republic's electricity sector	7
A framework for updating the regulation of isolated power systems in light of the energy transition imperative: The case of Chile	7
Modeling the impact of price and usage efficiency on domestic water demand in Saudi Arabia	7
Grid assessment of community-driven renewable energy technology and storage integration in rural Yucatan, Mexico	7
Reversing privatization: Political distortions and performance outcomes in Buenos Aires water services	7
Has benchmarking improved the performance of the Australian electricity distribution utilities? A meta-frontier model	7
A robust benchmarking of direct margin in Italy's energy retail markets	7
Does upgrading household consumption affect the eco-efficiency of China's solid waste management as measured by emissions?	7
Demand for grid-supplied electricity in the presence of distributed solar energy resources: Evidence from New York City	7
In-state generation requirements and the acceptability of renewable portfolio standards	7
The role of consumer behavior in the market for solar panels in Serbia	7
Competition and synergy effects of the horizontal integration for regional ports	7
Enlarged scars: The effects of economic policy uncertainty on electricity accessibility and urban-rural disparity	7
Embedding broader values in the regulatory model: An analysis of Ofgem's consumer value proposition for the natural gas distribution sector	7
Pricing and sharing rules for energy communities	7
Parallel or cross implementation? Carbon emission trading and renewable portfolio standards in China	7
How demand-side management can shape electricity generation capacity planning	7
Subsidized or subsidizing? Municipal drinking water service funds in California	7
Greater than the sum: On regulating innovation in electricity distribution networks with externalities	7
Stakeholder interaction in the digital transformation of China's electric power sector: An evolutionary game model	7
Effective communication of time–of–use electricity tariffs: Plain and simple	7
Household attitudes toward wastewater recycling in Saudi Arabia	7
Decentralized wastewater system practices in developing countries: A systematic review	7
Market share, plant ownership, and the merit-order effect of renewable resources: Evidence from Australia’s National Electricity Market	7
Evolutionary game theory-based system dynamics modeling for community solid waste classification in China	7
Pathways to a sustainable electricity sector in Kenya: Challenges and transformational factors	7
Water for daily life: Estimating basic household water needs in Lima and Quito	6
Transitioning Iran's electricity sector: A system dynamics analysis of renewable energy acceleration and carbon capture strategies to 2040	6
On the role of water utility governance for climate resilience: A Corporate Social Responsibility Directive approach	6
Multilevel governance, PV solar energy, and entrepreneurship: the generation of green hydrogen as a fuel of renewable origin	6
Generative literature analysis on the rise of prosumers and their influence on the sustainable energy transition	6
New energy-rich or still energy-poor? Evidence from selected African countries	6
Real-life resilience: Exploring the organisational environment of international water utilities	6
Human resource training to implement transmission schemes for renewable power evacuation in India	6
Modeling determinants of the environmental performance of urban transport infrastructure in six Chinese megacities	6
Electricity market restructuring in Thailand: Challenges and emerging policies	6