Utilities Policy

1990 - 2025

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Volume 49, issue C, 2017

Meso-institutions: The variety of regulatory arrangements in the water sector pp. 6-19

Claude Menard

Public innovation: An Australian regulatory case study pp. 20-29

Graeme Hodge and Tara McCallum

Data availability as a key tool for regulating government-owned water utilities pp. 30-37

Sanford Berg and Michelle Phillips

Raising the bar: The role of governance in performance assessments pp. 38-47

Francisco Silva Pinto, Pedro Simões and Rc Marques

Design and implementation of regulatory systems for government-owned utilities (GOUs) in Bulgaria pp. 48-60

Ivaylo Kastchiev

Regulation inside government: The challenges of regulating a government-owned utility pp. 61-70

Alketa Peci, D’Assunção, Márcio Leite, Michelle Moretzsohn Holperin and Celso Florêncio de Souza

Alternative policies for the liberalization of retail electricity markets in Chile pp. 72-92

Sebastián Palacios M. and Eduardo Saavedra

Two decades of rail regulatory reform in Brazil (1996–2016) pp. 93-103

Patrícia Regina Pinheiro Sampaio and Mariam Tchepurnaya Daychoum

Distributed electricity generation in Brazil: An analysis of policy context, design and impact pp. 104-115

Catherine Gucciardi Garcez

State capacity and utilities regulation in Brazil: Exploring bureaucracy pp. 116-126

Bruno Queiroz Cunha, Ana Karine Pereira and Alexandre de Ávila Gomide

Has efficiency improved after the decentralization in the water industry in Venezuela? pp. 127-136

Angel Higuerey, Lourdes Trujillo and María Manuela González

Public utility companies in liberalized markets – The impact of management models on local and regional sustainability pp. 137-144

Santiago Mejía-Dugand, Olof Hjelm and Leo Baas

Measuring and comparing the distribution of decision-making power in regulatory arrangements of the telecommunication sector in Latin America pp. 145-155

Camilo Ignacio González

Regulatory change and innovation in Latin America: The case of renewable energy in Brazil pp. 156-164

Amanda Bradshaw

Volume 48, issue C, 2017

Corporate social responsibility and dimensions of performance: An application to U.S. electric utilities pp. 1-11

Amer Ait Sidhoum and Teresa Serra

The efficacy of liberalization and privatization in introducing competition into European natural gas markets pp. 12-21

Iweta Opolska

Water for the urban poor: Balancing financial and social objectives through service differentiation in the Kenyan water sector pp. 22-31

Klaas Schwartz, Mireia Tutusaus and Elisa Savelli

Optimizing energy management and control of distributed generation resources in islanded microgrids pp. 32-40

Mohammad Abedini and Moein Abedini

An economic model for the cost of electricity service interruption in South Africa pp. 41-50

U.J. Minnaar, W. Visser and J. Crafford

An appraisal of investment vehicles in the Tanzania's electricity sector pp. 51-68

Donna Peng and Rahmatallah Poudineh

Postal network access and service quality: Expectation and experience in Serbia pp. 69-75

Dragana Šarac, Marija Unterberger, Bojan Jovanović, Momčilo Kujačić, Nikola Trubint and Spasenija Ožegović

The effectiveness of capacity markets in the presence of a high portfolio share of renewable energy sources pp. 76-91

Pradyumna C. Bhagwat, Kaveri K. Iychettira, Jörn C. Richstein, Emile J.L. Chappin and Laurens J. De Vries

A categorisation system for Australia's Integrated Urban Water Management plans pp. 92-102

Lachlan Guthrie, Saman De Silva and Casey Furlong

25 years of Regulation of Water Services; looking backwards & forwards11This paper is an extension of the notes I delivered at the annual conference of the Regulatory policy Institute held at Merton College Oxford on 12/13 September 2016 I amended the notes in the light of the discussion at Oxford and further helpful comments on an earlier draft. An important contribution could be made by adoption, or adaptation, of a new procedure devised for the Australian electricity market, made in a lecture by John Pearce, Chair, Australian Energy Market Commission, and an insight by Stephen Smith in his presentation on the Evolution of Network Price Determination Processes. Further points emerged at a subsequent presentation by Thames Water at a European Policy Forum Roundtable on the financing of the Thames Tideway Tunnel. I am particularly grateful to Alan Sutherland, John Smith, Colin Skellett, John Banyard, Remy Prud'homme, Rupert Darwall, Martin Cave, Stephen Littlechild, Sonia Brown and Jonson Cox and to three anonymous referees for help in the drafting of this paper and to Julia Havard in editing the text.,22See my article on the Regulation of Water Services in the UK in Utilities Policy 24 (2013) for my account of my term of office from 1989 to 2000 pp. 103-108

Ian Byatt

The contractual and administrative regulation of public-private partnership pp. 109-121

Gonzalo Ruiz

The hybrid model for economic regulation of water utilities: Mission impossible? pp. 122-131

Olivia Jensen and Xun Wu

Efficient risk transfer in PPP wastewater treatment projects pp. 132-140

Asheem Shrestha, Toong-Khuan Chan, Ajibade A. Aibinu and Chuan Chen

Why not regulate PPPs? pp. 141-146

Rc Marques

Myopic PPPs: Risk allocation and hidden liabilities for taxpayers and users pp. 147-156

Germà Bel, Paula Bel-Piñana and Jordi Rosell

The favourability of U.S. PPP enabling legislation and private investment in transportation infrastructure pp. 157-165

R. Richard Geddes and Eoin Reeves

The ‘hidden costs’ of water provision: New evidence from the relationship between contracting-out and price in French water public services pp. 166-175

Simon Porcher

Contract renegotiation by an Italian wastewater utility: Action research to promote effective tariff revision pp. 176-183

A. Guerrini and Giulia Romano

Public-Private Partnerships as rent-seeking opportunities: A case study on an unsolicited proposal in Lima, Peru pp. 184-194

Guillermo Takano

The build-operate-transfer model as an infrastructure privatisation strategy for Turkmenistan pp. 195-200

Serdar Durdyev and Syuhaida Ismail

Local waste management in the Czech Republic: Limits and merits of public-private partnership and contracting out pp. 201-209

Jana Soukopová, Gabriela Vaceková and Daniel Klimovský

Analyzing risk in PPP provision of utility services: A social welfare perspective pp. 210-218

Mark A. Moore, Anthony Boardman and Aidan Vining

Volume 47, issue C, 2017

Incorporating the influence of China's industrial capacity elimination policies in electricity demand forecasting pp. 1-11

Zongyun Song, Dongxiao Niu, Shuyu Dai, Xinli Xiao and Yuwei Wang

Intermodal competition between high-speed rail and air transport in Spain pp. 12-17

Javier Gundelfinger-Casar and Pablo Coto-Millán

Assessing the efficiency dynamics of post reforms electric distribution utilities in Pakistan pp. 18-28

Faisal Mirza, Iqra Mushtaq and Kafait Ullah

“Governance restricts”: A contextual assessment of the wastewater treatment policy in the Guadalupe River Basin, Mexico pp. 29-40

Cesar Casiano Flores, Gül Özerol and Hans Bressers

The governance of industry rules and energy system innovation: The case of codes in Great Britain pp. 41-49

Matthew Lockwood, Catherine Mitchell, Richard Hoggett and Caroline Kuzemko

Factors associated with nonpayment behavior in the water sector of Nicaragua pp. 50-57

William F. Vásquez and Jessica Alicea-Planas

Electricity prices and energy intensity in Europe pp. 58-68

Miroslav Verbič, Sanja Filipović and Mirjana Radovanović

Framing of customer engagement opportunities and renewable energy integration by electric utility representatives pp. 69-74

Jennie C. Stephens, Daniel J. Kopin, Elizabeth J. Wilson and Tarla Rai Peterson

Volume 46, issue C, 2017

Capacity Remuneration Mechanisms for Reliability in the Integrated European Electricity Market: Effects on Welfare and Distribution through 2023 pp. 1-14

Thure Traber

Historical waves in Hungarian water sector reform and implications for integration pp. 15-21

Iván Szabó and Monica Garcia Quesada

The practicality of distributed PV-battery systems to reduce household grid reliance pp. 22-32

Philip Hanser, Roger Lueken, Will Gorman and James Mashal

Cross-border effects of capacity mechanisms in interconnected power systems pp. 33-47

Pradyumna C. Bhagwat, Jörn C. Richstein, Emile J.L. Chappin, Kaveri K. Iychettira and Laurens J. De Vries

Swaying public opinion on nuclear energy: A field experiment in Hong Kong pp. 48-57

Tin Fai Kwok, Chung Hang Yeung and Yuan Xu

Productivity of wastewater treatment plants in the Valencia Region of Spain pp. 58-70

R. Fuentes, T. Torregrosa-Martí and F. Hernández-Sancho

The regulatory experience of Italy and the United States with dedicated incentives for strategic electricity transmission investment pp. 71-80

Nico Keyaerts and Leonardo Meeus