Utilities Policy

1990 - 2025

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Volume 96, issue C, 2025

Regulatory Impact Assessment in the energy transition era: insights from the UK experience

Michael Grubb, Ben Hinder, Laura Dye and Hannah Nixon

How do European Union electric utilities contribute to the Sustainable Development Goals? Empirical insights on reporting and management control practices

Shekerta Aliu, Albert Anton Traxler and Dorothea Greiling

Scenario analysis of Saudi Arabia's residential solar energy incentives

Sikandar Abdul Qadir, Amjad Ali, Md Tasbirul Islam and Muhammad Shahid

Modeling the impact of price and usage efficiency on domestic water demand in Saudi Arabia

Muhammad Javid

Towards an ecologically sustainable electricity mix in South Africa: Evaluating the policy implications of renewable and nuclear energy

Chinazaekpere Nwani and Philip Chimobi Omoke

A multi-period, multi-criteria model for dynamic performance assessment of the Portuguese water sector

Sandra Tralhão, Rita Martins and João Paulo Costa

The impact of announcing a payment assistance program on UK household water consumption: A regression discontinuity analysis

Emmanouil Tyllianakis, Nikos Rigas and Konstantinos E. Kounetas

The evolution of competitiveness in the Chilean mobile market

Carlos Gutiérrez-Hita, Santiago Budría Rodríguez and Shahriyar Nasirov

The impact of the cost-of-living crisis on water poverty in Scotland: A lived-experience analysis

Heather K. Anderson, A. Bradley Duthie, Craig W. McDougall, Richard S. Quilliam and Heather Price

Rent-seeking in megaprojects: The case of Turkey's public-private partnerships for roads

Ali Osman Solak

Price impacts of natural gas chokepoints on China: an energy security analysis of the Russia-Ukraine conflict

Yu Zhang, Xin Yu, Peng Zhang and Haoran Zhang

Sustainable energy trading and fair benefit allocation in renewable energy communities: A simulation model for Portugal

Nuno Rego, Rui Castro and João Lagarto

Design and sustainability assessment of water strategy scenarios based on resource carrying capacity and multi-criteria decision-making: the case of Algiers

Meriem Naimi Ait-Aoudia

Market share, plant ownership, and the merit-order effect of renewable resources: Evidence from Australia’s National Electricity Market

Clinton J. Levitt and Skylar Lovell

Optimizing the strategic reserves of coal-fired power units to balance reliability and cost in China's clean energy transition

Jian Zhang, Yuming Huang, Yuanxin Liu, Na Yang and Jiahai Yuan

Network optimization and deployment for carbon capture and storage in China's coal-fired power plants

Jiahai Yuan, Yao Wang, Ying Wang, Yuanxin Liu, Jian Zhang and Haonan Zhang

Implementing energy sharing in energy communities: A comparative legal analysis of Austria and Flanders

Ting Chen, Alina Anapyanova, Frederik Vandenriessche and Hermann de Meer

Modeling electricity demand in China based on macro and micro-level methods

Shaogang Chen and Zizhe Wang

Pricing and sharing rules for energy communities

Remy Balegamire and Axel Gautier

Renewable energy investment in China's new demonstration cities: A quasi-natural experiment

Jiazhen Ren, Ying Liu, Yida Ren and Ping Zhang

A SWOT analysis for the evolution of Brazil’s renewable energy sector

Gláucia Fernandes Vasconcelos and Hérika Atala Castilho

The effect of subsidies, climate, and technology on residential electricity consumption in Qatar

Esmat Zaidan, Sa'd Shannak and Logan Cochrane

Equilibrium model of the impact of renewable portfolio standards and tradable green certificates on China's power supply chain

Huan Zhang, Sien Chen and Jianli Jiang

Socioeconomic dimensions of renewable energy communities: Pathways to collective well-being

Paolo Basilico, Alberto Biancardi, Idiano D'Adamo, Massimo Gastaldi and Vincenzo Stornelli

Operational efficiency and service quality of Indian electricity distribution utilities: A three-stage DEA and Malmquist Index analysis

Sufia,, Anoop Singh and Shambhavi Mishra

Challenges on the pathway to climate neutrality: insights from district heating systems in Serbia

Marija Živković, Boban Pavlović, Dejan Ivezić, Miloš Tanasijević and Dejan Stojanović

Consumer perspectives on demand-based electricity tariffs: Lessons from a Swedish pilot study

A. Nilsson and C. Bartusch

Extreme temperatures and residential electricity reliability in China

Tie Shi, Hanyi Chen and Yanzhen Liu

Examining the challenges and drivers of solar photovoltaic adoption in the twin cities of Pakistan

Zainab Parveen, Verda Salman and Faisal Jamil

Renewable energy communities and the ecological transition: A game theoretic bargaining approach

Leonardo Becchetti and Francesco Salustri

An overview of Brazil's electricity market: Planning, dispatch models, pricing, and modernization

Walquiria N. Silva, Erik Eduardo Rego, Giovani G.T.T. Vieira, Luís F.N. Lourenço and Mauricio B.C. Salles

Determinants of financial performance and sustainability in Namibia's electricity distribution sector

Hilkka Soondaha Etuna Aimwata and Tafirenyika Sunde

Internalizing CO2 emissions in Spanish port efficiency analysis: A stochastic frontier approach with policy insights

Andrea Rodríguez and Lourdes Trujillo

The impact of the delegated management model of urban piped service delivery on water quality in Kisumu, Kenya

Lorna Grace Okotto, Joseph Okotto-Okotto, Peggy Wanza and Jim Wright

Cascading social risks: A cross-spatial vulnerability analysis of atypical power system failures in China

Mingyu Wu, Xuesong Guo and Yu Zhao

Convergence dynamics of urban and rural electricity access rates across African countries

Sakiru Adebola Solarin

Competitiveness of utility-scale solar photovoltaic power generation in Brazil from 2014 to 2022

Artur Santa Catarina and Gisele de Lorena Diniz Chaves

Modeling the impact of electric vehicle charging on Lisbon's electricity distribution network

Miguel Mouquinho Cardinha, Rui Amaral Lopes and Nuno Amaro

Beyond choice: Value-focused thinking to evaluate resource alternatives for Sub-Saharan Africa's energy transition

Olaoluwa Paul Aasa, Sarah Phoya, Rehema J. Monko and Innocent Musonda

Variations in domestic water consumption in Hyderabad, India

Adithya Bandari and Shubhajit Sadhukhan

Local willingness to fund climate-resilient water utilities in a tourism-dependent region of Indonesia

Evi Siti Sofiyah, Sapta Suhardono, I Wayan Koko Suryawan and Lee Chun-Hung

Rethinking electricity demand-side response: Relational approaches to the challenge of residential flexibility in Italy

Aurore Dudka

How the digital revolution is reshaping water management and policy: A focus on Spain

Alfonso Expósito and Esther Díez Cebollero

Abnormally low bids in PPPs: Analysis of evidence and a proposed statistical test

Sergio Hinojosa, Roberto Muñoz and Giancarlos Oviedo

The effect of temperatures on household electricity consumption in northern China: Evidence from smart meters

Tie Shi, Hanyi Chen, Junbing Xu and Xuebin Wang

Harnessing rooftop photovoltaic potential: Adoption disparities across building types in Tarragona Province, Spain

Benito Zaragozí, Lluís Salvat-Garcia, Sergi Saladié-Gil and Òscar Saladié

Perspectives on taste and odor management in public water systems: A case study of Tennessee, USA

Pamela A. Hoover and Janey V. Camp

Local flexibility markets based on grid segmentation

Fábio Retorta, João Mello, Clara Gouveia, Bernardo Silva, José Villar, Matteo Troncia and José Pablo Chaves-Ávila

How policies impact household waste-source separation: an exploratory study of China

Zhaoyun Yin, Jing Ma, Canyou Wang, Jiajia Cao and Haimei Li

Motivating residents to save water based on the model of goal-directed behavior: Evidence from China

Xinyi Liu and Jie Wang

The relationship between electric vehicle adoption and electricity consumption: Evidence from Europe

Jacobus Nel and Roula Inglesi-Lotz

Meeting multiple mandates: The increasing complexity of water utility management

Andres Cabrera Flamini and Klaas Schwartz

Backup power or bill savings? How electricity tariffs impact residential solar-plus-storage usage in the United States

Will Gorman, Galen Barbose, Sunhee Baik, Cesca Miller and Juan Pablo Carvallo

Digital solutions in search of a problem? Balancing short-term and long-term needs in water utilities

A. Bennich, V. Bergion and D. Nilsson

Integrating demand forecasting and deep reinforcement learning for real-time electric vehicle charging price optimization

Monowar Mahmud, Tarek Abedin, Md Mahfuzur Rahman, Shamiul Ashraf Shoishob, Tiong Sieh Kiong and Mohammad Nur-E-Alam