A Framework for the Analysis of the Sustainability of the Energy Retail Market

Simone Di Leo, Marta Chicca, Cinzia Daraio, Andrea Guerrini and Stefano Scarcella
Additional contact information
Simone Di Leo: Department of Computer, Control and Management Engineering Antonio Ruberti, Sapienza University of Rome, 00185 Rome, Italy
Marta Chicca: Regulatory Authority for Energy, Networks and Environment (ARERA), 00187 Rome, Italy
Cinzia Daraio: Department of Computer, Control and Management Engineering Antonio Ruberti, Sapienza University of Rome, 00185 Rome, Italy
Andrea Guerrini: Regulatory Authority for Energy, Networks and Environment (ARERA), 00187 Rome, Italy
Stefano Scarcella: Regulatory Authority for Energy, Networks and Environment (ARERA), 00187 Rome, Italy

Sustainability, 2022, vol. 14, issue 12, 1-28

Abstract: This paper addresses the issue of assessing the sustainability of policy decisions of the Energy Retail Market, explicitly considering the retail energy market, unlike existing approaches in the literature that analyze the energy market as a whole. The sustainability assessment is treated as the process by which the sustainability implications of an initiative are assessed, where the initiative can be a proposed or existing policy, plan, program, project, piece of legislation, or current practice or activity. The paper provides a comprehensive overview of the state of the literature on the sustainability of policy decisions in the retail energy sector and formulates a conceptual framework for policy sustainability analysis in the retail energy sector. The systematic review is complemented by a quantitative bibliometric analysis on the 48 collected papers published from 1997 to 2022. The proposed framework allows for a balanced analysis of the sustainability of policy decisions by evaluating the technical, economic, and environmental impacts. It could be used to develop a list of indicators that can map the different impacts and their interactions. Critical analysis of the existing findings leads us to identify future research directions.

Keywords: deregulation; electricity retail market; energy retail market; liberalization; sustainability; systematic review (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: O13 Q Q0 Q2 Q3 Q5 Q56 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022
References: View references in EconPapers View complete reference list from CitEc
Citations:

Downloads: (external link)
https://www.mdpi.com/2071-1050/14/12/7320/pdf (application/pdf)
https://www.mdpi.com/2071-1050/14/12/7320/ (text/html)

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:gam:jsusta:v:14:y:2022:i:12:p:7320-:d:839444

Access Statistics for this article

Sustainability is currently edited by Ms. Alexandra Wu

More articles in Sustainability from MDPI
Bibliographic data for series maintained by MDPI Indexing Manager ().