Utilities Policy

1990 - 2026

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Volume 102, issue C, 2026

Risk-based screening of green hydrogen investability: Tariffs, network charges, and de-risking in Costa Rica and the UK

Andrea Navarro Jiménez

Unlocking public value: An institutional approach to technology transfer in Brazil's electricity RD&I framework

Hellen Caroline Benatti and Gabriel Marcuzzo do Canto Cavalheiro

A bridge too far: ISO-NE's MOPR removal proceeding

Richard M. Benjamin

Optimizing Malawi's power generation pathway to 2063: Balancing cost, security, and emissions for universal electricity access

Sylvester William Chisale and Han Soo Lee

Tariff and financing uncertainty in rural electricity markets: Evidence from small-scale photovoltaic investment in a weak-grid context

Kawakib Arar Tahir and Nejoom Taher

Water utilities damaged by wildfires: Recovery lessons, mitigation and research recommendations

Nikki Zavodny and Andrew J. Whelton

Expert group decision-making on ESG strategies for water public sanitation utilities under fiscal and budgetary constraints in Brazil

Marcos dos Santos de Lima, Wesley Douglas Oliveira Silva, Manoel Mariano Neto, Marcele Elisa Fontana and Andressa Ellen Apolinário Silva

Board gender diversity and renewable energy adoption: Global evidence from the utilities sector

Samsul Rosadi, Doddy Setiawan, Sutaryo, and Aldy Fariz Achsanta

Evaluating policies and interventions for promoting household electricity access in India

Ranajit Bera, Pulak Mishra and Priyadarshi Patnaik

Optimized energy scheduling and trading in residential smart grids via renewable integration and Marine Predators Algorithm

Vankadara Sampath Kumar and Saibal Chatterjee

How regulation shapes DSO digitalization investment and profitability: A comparative system dynamics analysis of hybrid and TOTEX regulation

Roberto Monaco, Claire Bergaentzlé, Jose Angel Leiva Vilaplana, Emmanuel Ackom and Per Sieverts Nielsen

Consumer-funded Policies for Green Energy Finance in Germany and the UK

Mehmet Hecan

An optimal solid waste management strategy for rural areas using a hybrid pythagorean fuzzy group decision-making framework

Brajamohan Sahoo and Bijoy Krishna Debnath

Poland and selected EU countries (2010–2025): Evolution and determinants of the household electricity price gap

Michał Thlon

Water utility residential customer disconnections and sociodemographic effects from across pandemic-era policy shifts: Evidence from New Jersey

Gregory Pierce, Kristen Downs, Ahmed Rachid El-Khattabi and Lawrence Levine

Enhancing grid efficiency in Iran's water-stressed power sector: A techno-economic assessment of transformer core replacement under fiscal and water scarcity constraints

Ali Asghar Taheri, Behnam Hashemi, Fatemeh Jozi and Mohammad Taghilou

Exploring pathways for accelerating energy transition and technological innovation in the power sector

Ruoxue Zhang, Yin Yang, Zhenyu Zhou and Jiashun Huang

Analyzing the evolution of India's electricity market: A systematic review of drivers, barriers, and regulatory instruments

Satyabrata Sahoo, Sambeet Mishra and Dillip Kumar Mishra

Heterogeneous strategic responses to carbon pricing: Pathways for green productivity in China's thermal power sector

Shafiq Tumusiime and Yongjun Li

Public utility in transition: Institutional reform and governance challenges in Mumbai's BEST undertaking

Suvedh Jaywant and Madhav G. Badami

Can community water user groups manage urban sanitation and solid waste? Evidence from water user associations in Lilongwe, Malawi

Ellis Adjei Adams, Ellen Frimpong and Akosua Boakye-Ansah

Equity benchmarking for essential WASH services: Inequality and rank mobility across Philippine regions

Samuel John E. Parreño

Efficiency gains and consumer savings from resource pooling in remote electricity systems

Eugene Adjei, Oscar Zapata, Gwen Holdmann and Greg Poelzer

Marginal emissions factors in a country with high penetration of renewables: The case of Brazil

Ícaro Hernandes, Fulvio Fontini and Filippo Beltrami

Strategic withholding in descending clock capacity auctions: A stage-by-stage analysis of the British electricity capacity market

Chris Doyle

Harmony in policy? Stakeholder (dis)alignment in local heat planning in Germany

Anna Billerbeck, Jakob Hoffmann and Markus Fritz

When EVs meet NIMBY: Public attitudes toward power plants, transmission lines, and battery storage in Israel

Yael Parag

Internal factors shaping ESG ratings in Chinese listed power firms

Haizhou Tang, Zhiming Xie and Qiang Fu

Loyalty and tier-based benefit allocation frameworks for renewable energy communities

Rui Rodrigues, José Villar, Alexandre Lucas and João Sousa

Identifying atmospheric regimes driving compound renewable and hydro-meteorological anomalies in Europe

Oguz Ozan Yolcan

Institutional reports as risk signals: A text-as-data topic-model measure of electricity-market narratives

Muthe Mathias Mwampashi

Flexible future grid integration possibilities of electric vehicles: A review

Pankaj Kumar Yadav, Monalisa Biswal, Hari Priya Vemuganti and Nand Kishor

Powering collaboration: A Portuguese case study on energy communities with third-party aggregators

Diogo Couceiro, João Victor Costa and Diana Neves

Modelling a just, public and net self-sufficient renewable energy transition at regional level

Ortzi Akizu-Gardoki, Martin Lallana, Erlantz Lizundia and Unai Pascual

Techno-energy assessment within a municipal energy transition index for local energy-system planning

Clara Andrada-Monrós, Elisa Peñalvo-López, Iván Valencia-Salazar and Vicente León-Martínez

Firms’ willingness to pay for an integrated desalination-based high-purity industrial water service under a centralized supply system: Evidence from South Korea

Heeseok Moon, Myoungjin Oh, Hyeongsik Kang and Hyunhong Choi

Optimal location and sizing of electric vehicle parking lots and photovoltaic renewable sources in distribution networks using the flow direction algorithm

Vahid Ahmadi and Ali Ghasemi-Marzbali

Strategic evaluation of time-of-use pricing limits for enhanced renewable energy procurement in radial distribution systems

Souvik Roy and Rhythm Singh

Carbon pricing and renewable electricity: A stage-dependent analysis of the EU ETS

Marco Tedeschi

U.S. wildfire-power grid risk: A review of policy & practices in ten western states

Cassie Koerner, Kathleen Araujo, Adair Muth, Palista Kharel, Jason Hampshire and Ned Potter

Addressing winter load growth: Reliability implications and a call to action for grid resilience

Keerthana Kumareswaran and Kelly T. Sanders

Volume 101, issue C, 2026

Price signals and distributed solar adoption under net metering: Evidence from Brazil

Bruno Moreno Rodrigo de Freitas

Policy-driven geothermal expansion in Türkiye: Technological and regulatory insights from the Kızıldere field

Gokhan Kirkil, Volkan Ş. Ediger and Ahmet Yucekaya

Reshaping tap water's brand image in the new media era: decision-support analysis based on social media and sustainable development priorities

Yanlei Wang

Electric vehicles as grid resources: Barriers to vehicle-to-grid (V2G) in the United States

Crystal Soderman, Serena Y. Kim, Jen Yip and Manish Shirgaokar

Political cycles in Chinese urban water tariff adjustment

Xun Wu, Chuanxin Zou and Xiaoting Zheng

Analysis of the effect of wealth taxes in overcoming the Jevons paradox

Metin Doğan

Public willingness-to-pay for electricity from domestic pumped-storage hydropower facilities: Evidence from South Korea

Kweon-Hoo Ko, Ji-Yu Kim and Seung-Hoon Yoo

Targeting energy efficiency in Portuguese urban water utilities

Bruno J. Cardoso, Nuno Rosa, Ana Rita Amaral, Adélio R. Gaspar and Álvaro Gomes

Prediction of energy consumption and carbon emission in Yunnan Province based on LEAP modeling

Zhengyuan Fan, Jie Yu, Taiwei Gu, Cui Qiao, Shaoyuan Li, Lin Ma and Wenhui Ma

Did private sector participation improve water services in Tumbes, Peru?

Ben Solis

How does service reliability in Tanzanian mini-grids shape lessons for sustainable rural grid integration?

Beatrice Mwella, Ibrahim Mwammenywa and Santos Kihwele

Utilities policy for the energy transition: A panel data analysis of wind and solar penetration in the EU

Hasan Tutar and Dalia Štreimikienė

Analysis of solar PV and BESS systems in the Isparta, Burdur and Antalya regions of Turkey

Ahmet Elbi̇r

Corrigendum to ‘From stakeholders to shareholders: policy priorities in Portugal for a just energy transition’ [Util. Policy 98 (2026) 102101]

L.E. Rielli, F. Alves, J. Limão and I. Campos

Electricity infrastructure resilience to bushfire and extreme weather: Impacts and stakeholder-driven recommendations

Donald Azuatalam, Alex Shreeve, Rosemary Lyster, Jacinta Azuatalam and Gregor Verbic

The 2025 Iberian Peninsula blackout: Lessons for modern power systems and policy implications

Hugo Morão

A game-theoretic framework for cluster-based dynamic electricity pricing in high-penetration renewable networks

Md. Ahasan Habib and M.J. Hossain

Making energy democracy work: Governing local conflicts in Germany's Energiewende

Jörg Radtke

Ratemaking under indexation: How policy clauses compound into retail electricity tariffs

Fahad Bin Abdullah, Muhammad Arsalan Aqeeq, Falak Shad Memon, Maria Abdullah and Sumaira Chamadia

Prioritizing utility investments in contested corridors: A fuzzy-network analysis for Pakistan's power sector transition

Younas Khan and Gaoxiang Lou

Awareness as a key factor building a positive attitude towards community energy systems at the early adoption stage

Wojciech Bełch and Michaela Valentová

Environmental variables in regulatory models: Lessons from electricity distribution in Brazil

Tatielle Menolli Longhini, Marcelo Azevedo Costa, Bruno de Almeida Vilela and Ana Beatriz Rodrigues Alves Branquinho Barbosa

Dynamic revised price-cap regulation: Eliminating inefficiency, preventing Ramsey convergence, and aligning firm–consumer welfare

Chun-Hung Chen

Electricity market design for power system reliability: Lessons for South Africa

Munyaradzi Keith Mupazviriho, Bernard Bekker and Amaris Dalton

Reliability, functionality, and governance of community-managed rural water points in Ginir district, Ethiopia

Andargachew Melke Alemu, Tesfahun Addisu, Dereje Tolosa, Siraj Abduro, Sintayehu Fetene and Bewuket Bekele

Energy sharing within Dutch energy communities: An institutional analysis using Ostrom's design principles

Esmee Lub, Robert Wade, Luc van Summeren and Anna Devenish

Effects of renewable portfolio standards obligation distribution: Equilibrium analysis of supply side vs. demand side in power supply chain networks

Huan Zhang, Jiaming Wu, Sien Chen and Jianli Jiang

European funding, national decisions, and electricity grid investments

Ján Mykhalchyk Hradický and Katarína Strauszová

A project success index for water and power public-private partnerships in Gulf Cooperation Council countries

Khaled Aljaber, M. Sohail and Kirti Ruikar

Drivers of residential participation in time-varying electricity pricing: Evidence from U.S. utilities

Dmitriy Li, Jeong Hwan Bae and Thi Lan Anh Hoang

Sustainability reporting across religious-ethical traditions: A sociology of Worth perspective on UK and Italian water utilities

Gabriella D'Amore, Antonio D'Alessio, Alessandra Di Fraia, Fabio Serini and Loris Landriani

Policy and regulation in virtual power plants development

Hemlal Bhattarai, Asma Aziz and Stefan W. Lachowicz

Long-term and spot electricity markets: The technology link in Spain

Daniel Davi-Arderius and Tooraj Jamasb

Persistent gaps and uneven coverage in U.S. energy-efficiency incentives for small and medium-sized enterprises

Fatemeh Ghafari, Chao Wang and Michael Hayes

Climate risk, cross-regional power transmission, and urban energy system resilience: Evidence from the regional level in China

Ang Li and Bin Li

Addressing imbalanced data and feature engineering for abnormal water consumption detection with machine learning models

Mahelvson Bazilio Chaves, Fábio Rodrigo de Lima e Silva and Adiel Teixeira de Almeida Filho

Assessing spatial consumer preferences for renewable portfolio standards considering energy mix and water consumption

Saleh Mamun, Jamal Mamkhezri and Janie Chermak

Shaping energy supply diversity through green innovation in the face of global uncertainty in G20 economies

Abdulaziz Abdulmohsen Alfalih and Tarek Bel Hadj

Integrated PSO-MILP water–energy planning and operation under flexibility constraints and water scarcity: Application to an off-grid Mediterranean island

Matteo Savina, Carlo Federico Vescovo, Giovanni Zaccaria, Enrico Giglio and Giuliana Mattiazzo

Multilevel assessment of energy security in Cameroon: A 3A-based framework for bridging renewable-nonrenewable trade-offs in emerging African economies

Wulfran Fendzi Mbasso, Ambe Harrison, Idriss Dagal, Zhe Liu, Pradeep Jangir, Raman Kumar, Pierre Tiako and Aseel Smerat

From least-cost plans to implementable electrification: A regulatory–financial framework to achieve universal access

Santos J. Díaz-Pastor, Carlos de Abajo, Robert Stoner and Ignacio J. Pérez-Arriaga

How artificial intelligence amplifies decarbonization in urban waste management: Causal evidence from China

Jianxian Wu, Hui Jin and Haowen Wu

Identifying and mitigating cybersecurity risks in residential demand response for smart grids in Sub-Saharan Africa

Timothy King Avordeh and Daniel Ofori-Boateng

Corrigendum to “On the role of water utility governance for climate resilience: A Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive approach” [Util. Policy, 95, August 2025, 101931]

Chiara De Bernardi and Nora Annesi

Impacts of extreme high temperatures on the energy transition: Disruption or promotion?

Guidong Zhang, Jianlong Wang and Yong Liu

Decomposition of inefficiencies in a vertically integrated, hydro-dependent electricity sector: A two-stage DEA–Tobit framework

Christopher Phiri and Seyithan Ahmet Ateş

The impact of the Russia–Ukraine war on European electricity mix: Evidence from a difference-in-differences approach

Zihao Song and Ralf Becker

Unlocking clean energy transitions in developing countries: A robust policy mix exploration for Mexico

Omar Castrejon-Campos, Lu Aye, Felix Kin Peng Hui and Paulo Vaz-Serra

Curtailment, flexibility, and storage: Regulatory challenges of distributed generation in Brazil

Geraldo Lúcio Tiago Filho, Regina Mambeli Barros, Ivan Felipe Silva dos Santos, Maurício Carneiro Goulart, Carlos Adriano Rosa, Guilherme José Rennó Teixeira and Johnson Herlich Roslee Mensah

The spatial clustering of utility-scale solar in Rhode Island

Christopher Battle

Beyond economic reductionism: The energy Sector's role in societal development and Mexico's biophysical trap

M.A. Morales-Mora, M.A. Caballero-Castrillo, Y.I. Pérez-Ramírez, V.A. Soriano-Ramírez and A. González-Diaz

Shifting behavior, shaping grids: Appliance-level insights for targeted residential demand response

YeHa Yang, Woojin Son and JongRoul Woo

Smart-grid development in Chile: Technological conditions, limitations, and policy pathways

Miguel Parada Contzen and Marcela Parada-Contzen

Macroeconomic benefits of integrating industrial waste heat in district heating networks

Simon Moser and Sebastian Goers

An assessment of the techno-economic viability of rooftop residential solar photovoltaic systems in Canada and U.S. cities with similar solar irradiation

Frecia Aguilar, Tina Shoa and Arman Bonakdarpour

When does privatization of distribution utilities’ management reduce electricity losses? Evidence from Rajasthan, India

Rohit Gupta, Adam Goldstein, Rahul Tongia, Siddharth Upreti and Denise L. Mauzerall

Policy assessment platform for the colombian electricity transition by 2050

Farikc Y. Palacios, Enrique Ángel Sanint, Jorge Andrick Parra Valencia and Isaac Dyner

Improving payment for essential services – A field experiment in Nairobi, Kenya

David Fuente, Mbutu Mwaura, Josiah Gitu, Richard Mulwa and Joseph Cook

Gujarat's power sector interventions as a blueprint for revitalizing India's DISCOMs

Jai Prakash Shivahare