Utilities Policy

Article	Citations
Legislative reforms and market dynamics in the provision of urban water service by private contract operators in Spain	208
Assessing the effect of increasing block tariffs for residential natural gas in Hefei City, China	139
Ways to promote investments in sustainable energy utilities in the central Asian regional economic cooperation program region	108
How do European Union electric utilities contribute to the Sustainable Development Goals? Empirical insights on reporting and management control practices	101
Convergence dynamics of urban and rural electricity access rates across African countries	82
An overview of Brazil's electricity market: Planning, dispatch models, pricing, and modernization	76
Editorial Board	72
Designing circular economy-compliant municipal solid waste management charging schemes	72
Opportunities and challenges for small-scale flexibility in European electricity markets	64
Excess demand or excess supply? A comparison of renewable energy certificate markets in the United Kingdom and Australia	62
Heterogeneity in own-price residential customer demand elasticities for electricity under time-of-use rates: Evidence from a randomized-control trial in the United States	60
Evaluation of the multi-dimensional growth potential of China's public charging facilities for electric vehicles through 2030	57
Household access to the public electricity grid in Cameroon: Analysis of connection determinants	56
Exploratory analysis of the water governance frameworks regarding the OECD principles in two river basins in Brazil and Portugal	55
Outage-induced power backup choice in Pakistan	53
Assessing the relationship between electricity theft and customer payment habits: A machine-learning approach	52
Good governance and energy justice: Pathways to human development	52
Feasibility analysis of implementing an On Bill Financing program to promote energy-efficiency in Dubai-UAE	52
Household energy poverty and personal time allocation: Empirical evidence from China	51
Addressing low-quality electricity service for low-income consumers: Empirical evidence from Brazil	48
Navigating the transition: The impacts of electricity tariff regulation on distributed generation in Brazil	47
Reinventing European air traffic control based on the covid-19 pandemic experience	47
Water governance models for meeting sustainable development Goals:A structured literature review	46
A review of global research on private investment in the water sector	41
A mixed-method analysis of New Zealand's smart meter rollout experience	38

Inflation effects of oil and gas prices in the UK: Symmetries and asymmetries	36
A fair grid connection cost-sharing model for electricity based on the random forest machine learning method	35
An integrated model for electricity market coupling simulations: Evidence from the European power market crossroad	34
Assessing the integration of planning instruments for urban land use and water service	34
Optimal policies for electromobility: Joint assessment of transport and electricity distribution costs in Norway	32
Development and application of regional urban water security indicators	32
Cybersecurity and resilience in the swiss electricity sector: Status and policy options	32
A system dynamics framework to formulate energy policies for sustainable development in Ethiopia	32
The electrification-social development nexus in Bangladesh: Do governmental policies matter?	31
Characterizing flexibility in power markets and systems	30
Screening for collusion in wholesale electricity markets: A literature review	29
Is it all about supply? Demand-side effects on the Spanish electricity market following Covid-19 lockdown policies	29
Technological innovation and energy efficiency in central Eastern European countries	29
The effect of temperatures on household electricity consumption in northern China: Evidence from smart meters	28
An experiment in own-price elasticity estimation for non-residential electricity demand in the U.S.	28
Editorial Board	28
Public-sector reform: Lessons from the privatisation experiment in Greece	27
Energy resource productivity and environmental quality: A quantile-on-quantile study of Latin America from 1990 to 2022	26
Urban broadband infrastructure and green total-factor energy efficiency in China	25
Factors influencing residential water consumption in Wallonia, Belgium	25
Comparative analysis of energy poverty definition and measurement in Portugal and Spain	25
Transforming marginal-cost pricing: A blockchain approach to fundamental energy system dynamics	25
Service quality performance indicators for electricity distribution in Brazil	25
Renewable energy communities and the ecological transition: A game theoretic bargaining approach	24
Subnational perspectives on energy transition pathways for Mexico's electricity grid	24
A sustainability assessment of decentralized water supply systems in Bandung City, Indonesia	23
Open questions for public water management: Discussions from Uruguay's restatization process	23
Is more competition better? Retail electricity prices and switching rates in the European Union	23
The distributional effects of rural electrification on household welfare: Evidence from Senegal	23
Does district heating affect residential property prices? Case study of an urban area in South Korea	22
Regulating electricity spot markets during extreme events: The 2021 Texas case	21
Editorial Board	21
Determinants of financial performance and sustainability in Namibia's electricity distribution sector	20
A case study of financing zero-emission power-to-gas technologies in Spain	20
Electricity system resilience: An integrated bibliometric and systematic literature review	20
Influence of population mobility on electricity consumption in seven U.S. cities during the COVID-19 pandemic	20
Estimating stranded coal assets in China's power sector	20
Forecasting of Türkiye's net electricity consumption with metaheuristic algorithms	20
Incorporating nonrevenue water in the efficiency assessment of water supply utilities: A parametric enhanced hyperbolic distance function	19
A lifecycle-based indicator to support residual solid waste flow planning at the regional level	19
Improving asset management in capital-intensive industries: Case study of a Portuguese water utility	19
Customer complaint management and smart technology adoption by community water systems	19
Open Water: Impacts of Retail Competition on Service Performance and Water-Use Efficiency in England	18
Asymmetric impact of green bonds on energy efficiency: Fresh evidence from quantile estimation	18
Transition to greener electricity and resource use impact on environmental quality: Policy based study from OECD countries	18
Detection of unauthorized consumption in water supply systems: A case study using logistic regression	18
Editorial Board	18
Assessing water conservation behaviour of India's urban households	18
Waste management, quality of life and natural resources utilization matter for renewable electricity generation: The main and moderate role of environmental policy	18
No-queue road pricing: A comprehensive policy instrument for Europe?	17

Regulatory analysis of E-mobility for Brazil: A comparative review and outlook	17
Modelling features and outcomes of Brazil's electricity tariff flag program	17
Payback of natural gas turbines: A retrospective analysis with implications for decarbonizing grids	17
Drivers of mobile broadband pricing: Cross-national evidence on policy and market dynamics	16
Are Brazilian water auction prices affordable for vulnerable families?	16
New avenues for community solar adoption research: A qualitative comparative analysis of ten U.S. states	16
Socioeconomic drivers of residential electricity expenditures in India	16
Water poverty in a ‘Hydro Nation’: Exploring distributional and recognitional water injustice in Scotland	16
Solving electric power distribution uncertainty using deep learning and incentive-based demand response	16
Integrating demand forecasting and deep reinforcement learning for real-time electric vehicle charging price optimization	16
Network optimization and deployment for carbon capture and storage in China's coal-fired power plants	16
China's textbook approach to regulatory reform of the natural gas market	16
Multi-criteria decision support: A case study of Southeast Europe power systems	16
Management efficiency of Chinese toll road operating companies and influencing factors	16
Assessing the public-private partnership handover: Experience from China's water sector	16
Environmental benefits of energy poverty alleviation, renewable resources, and urbanization in North Africa	15
Impact of Spanish renewable support scheme reforms on the revenues of photovoltaic power plants	15
Efficient firms are all alike, but every inefficient firm is such in its own way: Heterogeneity of costs determinants in the Italian water sector	15
A data-driven approach to reduce electricity theft in developing countries	15
A note on hydropower as a marginal price setter for Spain's electricity market in 2021–2022	15
Seeing more than reading:The visual mode in utilities' sustainability reports	15
Efficiency of water service management alternatives in Spain considering environmental factors	15
Spatial analysis of energy communities and energy vulnerabilities in Spain	14
Can bureaucrats change light bulbs? Institutional constraints of energy poverty alleviation programs in Taiwan	14
Editorial Board	14
Photovoltaic project investment based on the real options method: An analysis of the East China power grid region	14
Agent-based modeling of residential photovoltaic adoption and diffusion: Implications for energy policy design	14
Water democracy under European Union law: Requiring participatory services management	14
Enhancing financial efficiency and receivable collection in the water sector: Insights from structural equation modeling	14
Possible paths for Mexico's electricity system in the clean energy transition	14
Measuring energy poverty by estimating the income elasticity of energy demand: An application to Kazakhstan	14
Transition mapping for modern energy service provision under uncertainty: A case study from Brazil	14
A multi-criteria model for measuring the sustainability orientation of Italian water utilities	14
Motivating residents to save water based on the model of goal-directed behavior: Evidence from 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	13
A SWOT analysis for the evolution of Brazil’s renewable energy sector	13
Merit-order of dispatchable and variable renewable energy sources in Turkey's day-ahead electricity market	13
The impact of transparency policies on local flexibility markets in electric distribution networks	13
The impact of pollution information disclosure on household electricity consumption: Evidence from China	13
Assessing the role of green finance in sustainable energy investments by power utilities: Evidence from China	13
Evidence of supply security and sustainability challenges in Nigeria’s power sector	13
Do publicly owned companies have lower district heating prices? An empirical analysis for Germany	13
Renewable R&D investments and carbon emissions in G7 countries: The mediating roles of technology and economic efficiency	12
Defining and measuring active distribution system operators for the electricity and natural gas sectors	12
A novel TSO settlement scheme for the Frequency Containment Reserve Cooperation in Europe’s integrated electricity market	12
Is cognition of residential tiered pricing policy effective in reducing electricity consumption in China?	12
Insights from the N11 economies on drivers of the clean energy transition	12
Alternative operational modes for Chinese PV poverty alleviation power stations: Economic impacts on stakeholders	12
Internalizing CO2 emissions in Spanish port efficiency analysis: A stochastic frontier approach with policy insights	11
Guiding electricity distribution system investments to improve service quality: A European study	11
Better safe than sorry? Stated preferences and the precautionary principle for securing drinking water quality in an Italian district	11
Modeling the impact of electric vehicle charging on Lisbon's electricity distribution network	11
Comparing multi-criteria models for ranking the Performance of India's water supply utilities	11
Pragmatism as an approach for decision-making: Why two Kenyan water utilities opted for pre-paid water dispensers	11
Rethinking electricity demand-side response: Relational approaches to the challenge of residential flexibility in Italy	11
On sharing the costs of public drinking water infrastructure renewal among users with different preferences	11
Rural-urban inequality in drinking water accessibility as a socioeconomic outcome in Nigeria	11
Editorial Board	11
Household acceptance of solar water heaters in South Africa: An expectancy-disconfirmation model	10
Techno-economic assessment of residential PV system tariff policies in Jordan	10
How are public utilities responding to electricity market restructuring and the energy transition? Lessons from Israel	10
Prepaid water meters and water distribution system improvement: A case study of Jenin city, Palestine	10
Enhancing electricity distribution efficiency in Pakistan: A framework for progress and action	10
Economics of utility-scale batteries in Romania under various market conditions	10
Performance assessment of the Chilean water sector: A network data envelopment analysis approach	10
Public ownership and ESG policies: implications for firm productivity in local transportation	10
A time aggregation approach for reducing identifiability in household energy data	10
Energy knowledge and public response to restarting nuclear plants in Japan following the fukushima accident	10
Efficiency and productivity of renewable energy technologies: Evidence from U.S. investor-owned utilities across regional markets	10
From pragmatic to politicized? The future of water remunicipalization in the United States	10
The status of and opportunities for utility-scale battery storage in Australia: A regulatory and market perspective	10
Does information intervention influence residential waste-source separation behavior?	10
Understanding the variability of residential energy poverty in India	10
An analysis of the interactions between daily electricity demand levels in France	9
Digital infrastructure investment and carbon emissions reduction based on the Broadband China policy	9
Implementing energy sharing in energy communities: A comparative legal analysis of Austria and Flanders	9
Community Energy in Germany – Bowling Alone in Elite Clubs?	9
Does human capital complement sustainable development goals? Evidence from leading carbon emitter countries	9

Renewable energy project implementation: Will the Baltic States catch up with the Nordic countries?	9
The nexus between information technology and environmental pollution: Application of a new machine learning algorithm to OECD countries	9
Investment in vehicle-to-grid and distributed energy resources: Distributor versus prosumer perspectives and the impact of rate structures	9
Waste heat inconsistencies in the EU's energy legislation	9
Clean energy transition in the Turkish power sector: A techno-economic analysis with a high-resolution power expansion model	9
Promoting efficient district heating in Estonia	9
Economics and policy implications of residential photovoltaic systems in Italy's developed market	9
Clustered patterns of household water consumption in Portuguese municipalities: Do regional location and population trajectory matter?	9
Tariff flags and electricity consumption response in Brazil	9
Management control by municipal utilities for value creation to achieve the sustainable development goals	9