Utilities Policy

1990 - 2026

Current editor(s): Beecher, Janice

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Volume 103, issue C, 2026

Ice storm protection of the Hydro-Québec grid to support urban resilience

Seyed Mohammad Hossein Seyedi Rezvani, Marc Morissette, Dragan Komljenovic, Maria João Falcão Silva and Nuno Marques de Almeida

Evaluating energy savings from Minnesota’s Demand-Side Management Financial Incentive Program

Hayk Mardanyan

Forecasting Türkiye's primary and sustainable energy demand by 2030 using a system dynamics approach

Burcu Gökay, Melis Tuğrul, Nursaç Yılmaz Çakırbey and Doğan Özgen

Assessing the operational efficiency and revenue performance of Indian DISCOMs: The role of agricultural feeder and metering infrastructure

Ashutosh Sharma and Krishna Muniyoor

Diagnosing critical gaps in urban wastewater systems in China to inform policy priorities

Ranbin Liu, Yundi Deng and Yanping Qiao

Utility-scale renewable energy development in Saudi Arabia, the UAE, and Iran: Policy drivers, governance models, and energy transition pathways

Umud Shokri

The boreholes alongside the new roads: Improving drinking accessibility in water-scarce communities in northern Benin

Zhongwen Sun and Dafeng Xu

Does cooperation pay off over time? Evidence from water and wastewater services

Francisco Wellington Ribeiro, Augusto Cézar de Aquino Cabral, Sandra Maria dos Santos and Daniel Barboza Guimarães

Portfolio optimization for residential flexibility procurement in distribution radial circuits

David Toquica, Kodjo Agbossou, Nilson Henao and Michael Fournier

Cross-provincial electricity allocation and regional energy development: Evidence from China's ultra-high voltage grid expansion

Bao-Jun Tang, Pei-Yun Xu, Ru Li and Chong-Zhou Wang

Reported public electric-vehicle charging-pile stock in China: Configurational pathways and policy implications

Na Zhao, Yi Yang and Chong Wu

Designing residential time-of-use tariffs for renewable-intensive power systems: Evidence from China

Ying Zheng, Ao Sun and Feng Song

Trust as a binding constraint on demand response: Why reliability investment must precede participation mandates

Abu Hena MD Shatil and Kazi Firoz Ahmed

Household characteristics associated with smart-meter interval data viewership: Evidence from the U.S. residential energy consumption survey

Adrienne Ohler and Michael Sykuta

Integrated water management for sustainable development in Delhi, India: A strategic review

Radhey Shyam Tyagi, S.K. Singh and P.K. Goyal

Economic impacts of electricity transmission and distribution losses in Pakistan: A dynamic inoperability input–output analysis

Ayesha Hidayat Ullah, Yousaf Ali and Muhammad Sabir

Institutional transparency and waste separation behavioral intention: The mediating role of procedural justice and the moderating role of social cynicism

Shizheng Tan, Le Yan, Pengfei Li, Mengxin Wang, Xiaoguang Liu and Wei Li

Bridging the digital divide in Africa with special economic zones

Bing Hu and Rosy Pascale Tchouapi

Regulating electricity distribution concessions after reform: Benchmarking efficiency, productivity, and scale in Algeria

Nadjwa Boukadoum, Iskander Zouaghi, Frank A. Felder, Wassim Benhassine and Messaoud Zerouti

Prioritizing sites for gas distribution system decommissioning projects using geospatial data and decision support tools

Eric D. Fournier, Jacob Moul, Maya Ofek, Julia Skrovan, Spencer Mathews, Robert Cudd and Stephanie Pincetl

The economy-wide implications of reaching the UK's 2030 offshore wind targets: The importance of grid flexibility

Doungahire Abdoul Karim Zanhouo, Karen Turner and Long Zhou

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