Utilities Policy

1990 - 2025

Current editor(s): Beecher, Janice

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Volume 35, issue C, 2015

The market (in-)stability reserve for EU carbon emission trading: Why it might fail and how to improve it pp. 1-18

Jörn C. Richstein, Émile J.L. Chappin and Laurens J. de Vries

Energy reform in Mexico: Imperfect unbundling in the electricity sector pp. 19-27

Alejandro Ibarra-Yunez

Quantifying distribution-system operators' economic incentives to promote residential demand response pp. 28-40

Elta Koliou, Cajsa Bartusch, Angela Picciariello, Tobias Eklund, Lennart Söder and Rudi A. Hakvoort

The impact of curriculum-based learning on environmental literacy and energy consumption with implications for policy pp. 41-49

Christopher A. Craig and Myria W. Allen

Transportation intensity, urbanization, economic growth, and CO2 emissions in the G-20 countries pp. 50-66

Mak Arvin, Rudra P. Pradhan and Neville R. Norman

Coal, oil, or clean energy: Which contributes most to the low energy efficiency in China? pp. 67-71

Wei Xie, Pengfei Sheng and Xiaohui Guo

Asymmetric effects of electricity regulatory reforms in the EU15 and in the New Member States: Empirical evidence from residential prices 1990–2011 pp. 72-90

Emanuele Bacchiocchi, Massimo Florio and Giulia Taveggia

Assessing a decade of regulatory performance for the Lesotho electricity industry pp. 91-101

Leboli Z. Thamae, Retselisitsoe Thamae and Thimothy M. Thamae

Volume 34, issue C, 2015

Paths to universalize water and sewage services in Brazil: The role of regulatory authorities in promoting efficient service pp. 1-10

Anne Emília Costa Carvalho and Luciano Menezes Bezerra Sampaio

Network unbundling and flawed coordination: Experience from the electricity sector pp. 11-18

Gert Brunekreeft

Clean-energy policies and electricity sector carbon emissions in the U.S. states pp. 19-29

Hongtao Yi

Coal-ash management by U.S. electric utilities: Overview and recent developments pp. 30-33

Elizabeth Connors

Introduction to Reforming water tariffs: Experiences and reforms pp. 34-35

María García-Valiñas and Andres Picazo-Tadeo

Tariff recommendations: A Panacea for the Portuguese water sector? pp. 36-44

Francisco Silva Pinto and Rc Marques

The new Italian water tariff method: A launching point for novel infrastructures or a backwards step? pp. 45-53

Giulia Romano, Andrea Guerrini and Bettina Campedelli

Optimal water tariffs and supply augmentation for cost-of-service regulated water utilities pp. 54-62

R. Quentin Grafton, Long Chu and Tom Kompas

An empirical examination of the distributional impacts of water pricing reforms pp. 63-69

Steven Renzetti, Diane Dupont and Tina Chitsinde

A diagnostic tool for estimating the incidence of subsidies delivered by water utilities in low- and medium-income countries, with illustrative simulations pp. 70-81

Dale Whittington, Celine Nauges, David Fuente and Xun Wu

An analysis of the price escalation of non-linear water tariffs for domestic uses in Spain pp. 82-93

Marta Suárez-Varela, Roberto Martinez-Espineira and Francisco González-Gómez

Governance structures and their impact on tariff levels of Brazilian water and sanitation corporations pp. 94-105

Alexandro Barbosa and Isabel Brusca

Volume 33, issue C, 2015

Power transmission regulation in a liberalised context: An analysis of innovative solutions in South American markets pp. 1-9

Paolo Mastropietro, Luiz Barroso and Carlos Batlle

Coordination between clean energy generation and thermal power generation under the policy of “direct power-purchase for large users” in China pp. 10-22

Ming Zeng, Yongqi Yang, Qiannan Fan, Yingxin Liu and Zhuojun Zou

Interaction between gas and power market designs pp. 23-33

Miguel Vazquez and Michelle Hallack

The policy and institutional challenges of grid integration of renewable energy in the western United States pp. 34-41

Angela Cifor, Paul Denholm, Erik Ela, Bri-Mathias Hodge and Adam Reed

Household valuation of smart-home functionalities in Slovenia pp. 42-53

Miha Rihar, Nevenka Hrovatin and Jelena Zoric

European Union emissions trading scheme impact on the Spanish electricity price during phase II and phase III implementation pp. 54-62

Carlos Freitas and Patricia Silva

Lessons learned from Huizhou, China's unsuccessful waste-to-energy incinerator project: Assessment and policy recommendations pp. 63-68

Zheng Wan, Jihong Chen and Brian Craig

Volume 32, issue C, 2015

Public-private partnerships in Spanish Ports: Current status and future prospects pp. 1-11

María Cabrera, Ancor Suárez-Alemán and Lourdes Trujillo

A study of the negotiated-settlement practice in regulation: Some evidence from Florida pp. 12-18

Shourjo Chakravorty

An asset-management model for use in the evaluation and regulation of public-lighting systems pp. 19-28

Mohammad Javad Mirzaei, Reza Dashti, Ahad Kazemi and Mohammad Hassan Amirioun

Toward the digital water age: Survey and case studies of Australian water utility smart-metering programs pp. 29-37

C.D. Beal and J. Flynn

The impact of coordination on wholesale market participation: The case of the U.S. electricity industry pp. 38-44

Theodore J. Kury

Connecting Mediterranean countries through electricity corridors: New Institutional Economic and regulatory analysis pp. 45-54

Haikel Khalfallah

Volume 31, issue C, 2014

Beyond the public–private controversy in urban water management in Spain pp. 1-9

Francisco González-Gómez, Miguel A. García-Rubio and Jesús González-Martínez

Adaptation of interconnected infrastructures to climate change: A socio-technical systems perspective pp. 10-17

Emile J.L. Chappin and Telli van der Lei

The effects of ownership, board size and board composition on the performance of Italian water utilities pp. 18-28

Giulia Romano and Andrea Guerrini

Toward a less natural gas dependent energy mix in Spain: Crowding-out effects of shifting to biomass power generation pp. 29-35

María J. Colinet, José M. Cansino, José M. González-Limón and Manuel Ordóñez

Electricity inequality in Canada: Should pricing reforms eliminate subsidies to encourage efficient usage? pp. 36-43

Seyed Reza Mirnezami

30 years of British utility regulation: Developing country experience and outlook pp. 44-51

Katharina Gassner and Nataliya Pushak

Economies of scale and scope in Australian urban water utilities pp. 52-62

Andrew Worthington and Helen Higgs

Regulation of district-heating systems pp. 63-73

Matthias Wissner

Linking meters and markets: Roles and incentives to support a flexible demand side pp. 74-84

Jonas Katz

Smart Grids in the EU with smart regulation: Experiences from the UK, Italy and Portugal pp. 85-93

João Crispim, José Braz, Rui Castro and Jorge Esteves

Privatization of water-supply services in Saudi Arabia: A unique experience pp. 107-113

Omar K.M. Ouda, Rafat F. Al-Waked and Abdulrahman A. Alshehri

Productivity change and its determinants: Application of the Malmquist index with bootstrapping in Iranian steam power plants pp. 114-120

Naser Shams Gharneh, Alireza Nabavieh, Davoud Gholamiangonabadi and Mohammad Alimoradi

Incentives for Combined Heat and Power plants: How to increase societal benefits? pp. 121-132

Rasika Athawale and Frank A. Felder

Mergers and acquisitions in radio and television broadcasting: Consistent goals and adaptive regulation pp. 133-142

Janice A. Hauge

Pricing in centrally committed electricity markets pp. 143-145

Ramteen Sioshansi

British utility regulation: Consolidation, existential angst, or fiasco? pp. 146-151

Martin Lodge and Jon Stern

RPI-X, competition as a rivalrous discovery process, and customer engagement – Paper presented at the Conference The British Utility Regulation Model: Beyond Competition and Incentive Regulation? pp. 152-161

Stephen Littlechild

The British utility regulation model: Its recent history and future prospects pp. 162-172

Jon Stern

UK experience of utility regulation since 2003 and outlook pp. 173-177

Chris Bolt

A better deal for consumers and an attractive environment for investors: The regulators' perspective on the development and use of regulatory and competition powers pp. 178-183

Richard Price and Cathryn Ross

Developing countries experience and outlook: Getting the framework right pp. 184-187

Ian Alexander

Independent regulation of government-owned monopolies: An oxymoron? The case of electricity distribution in Australia pp. 188-196

Bruce Mountain

Reflections on RPI-X regulation in OECD countries pp. 197-202

Jonathan Mirrlees-Black

Utility regulation in Africa: How relevant is the British model? pp. 203-205

Liam Wren-Lewis

The Customer Forum: Customer engagement in the Scottish water sector pp. 206-218

Stephen Littlechild

The EU internal electricity market: Done forever? pp. 221-228

Jean-Michel Glachant and Sophia Ruester

From distribution networks to smart distribution systems: Rethinking the regulation of European electricity DSOs pp. 229-237

Sophia Ruester, Sebastian Schwenen, Carlos Batlle and Ignacio Pérez-Arriaga

Gas network and market “à la Carte”: Identifying the fundamental choices pp. 238-245

Jean-Michel Glachant, Michelle Hallack and Miguel Vazquez

Electronic communications regulation in Europe: An overview of past and future problems pp. 246-255

Pier Luigi Parcu and Virginia Silvestri

Evolving regulation for media freedom and pluralism in the European Union pp. 256-265

Elda Brogi and Pier Luigi Parcu

Postal-sector policy: From monopoly to regulated competition and beyond pp. 266-277

Christian Jaag

Governance of competition and performance in European railways: An analysis of five cases pp. 278-288

Matthias Finger

The Single European Sky gridlock: A difficult 10 year reform process pp. 289-301

Marc Baumgartner and Matthias Finger