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
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
Agent-based modeling to assess the effects of time-of-use water tariffs on social equity	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
Household access to the public electricity grid in Cameroon: Analysis of connection determinants	52
Feasibility analysis of implementing an On Bill Financing program to promote energy-efficiency in Dubai-UAE	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
A mixed-method analysis of New Zealand's smart meter rollout experience	44
Assessing the integration of planning instruments for urban land use and water service	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
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 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
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 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
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
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
Renewable energy communities and the ecological transition: A game theoretic bargaining approach	27
Subsidizing solar energy in Indonesia: Evaluating the fossil fuel depletion premium as a revenue-neutral policy tool	26
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
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
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
Comparative analysis of energy poverty definition and measurement in Portugal and Spain	24
Editorial Board	24
Editorial Board	24
Open Water: Impacts of Retail Competition on Service Performance and Water-Use Efficiency in England	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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Modelling features and outcomes of Brazil's electricity tariff flag program	18
Solving electric power distribution uncertainty using deep learning and incentive-based demand response	17
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
Water poverty in a ‘Hydro Nation’: Exploring distributional and recognitional water injustice in Scotland	16
Are Brazilian water auction prices affordable for vulnerable families?	16
No-queue road pricing: A comprehensive policy instrument for Europe?	16
Drivers of mobile broadband pricing: Cross-national evidence on policy and market dynamics	16
Editorial Board	16
Environmental benefits of energy poverty alleviation, renewable resources, and urbanization in North Africa	16
Regulatory analysis of E-mobility for Brazil: A comparative review and outlook	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
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
Editorial Board	13
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
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
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
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
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
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