Utilities Policy

1990 - 2025

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Volume 87, issue C, 2024

Water in Circular Economy and Resilience (WICER) Framework

A. Delgado, D.J. Rodriguez, C.A. Amadei and M. Makino

Household water bill perception in Brazil

María Pérez-Urdiales, Jesse M. Libra, Kleber B. Machado, Tomas Serebrisky and Ben Solís Sosa

Regulatory incentives for transmission system operators under flow-based market coupling

Michiel Kenis, Kenneth Bruninx and Erik Delarue

Defining and measuring active distribution system operators for the electricity and natural gas sectors

Daniel Duma, Michael Pollitt, Andrei Covatariu and Monica Giulietti

Possible paths for Mexico's electricity system in the clean energy transition

Salvador Cruz Ake, Francisco Ortiz Arango and Reyna Susana García Ruiz

Electricity shortfalls and financial leverage of listed firms in Pakistan

Muhammad Akhtar, Muhammad Haris, Hafiz Muhammad Naveed, Yasir Rasool and Mamdouh Abdulaziz Sa Al-Faryan

Endogenous competition with an integrated public utility firm under an output subsidy policy

Lili Xu and Sang-Ho Lee

Collaborative governance challenges in energy efficiency and conservation: The case of Pennsylvania

Jingyu Guo, Daniel J. Mallinson, Selena E. Ortiz and Lisa Domenica Iulo

Energetic Equilibrium: Optimizing renewable and non-renewable energy sources via particle swarm optimization

Bogdan-George Tudorică, Cristian Bucur, Mirela Panait, Simona-Vasilica Oprea and Adela Bâra

Enhancing financial efficiency and receivable collection in the water sector: Insights from structural equation modeling

Abdullah Murrar, Veronica Paz, David Yerger and Madan Batra

Powershifts, organisational value, and water management: Digital transformation of Ghana's public water utility

Godfred Amankwaa, Richard Heeks and Alison L. Browne

Does renewable energy development enhance energy security?

Khalid Khan, Adnan Khurshid, Javier Cifuentes-Faura and Dai Xianjun

A note on hydropower as a marginal price setter for Spain's electricity market in 2021–2022

Juan Ignacio Peña

Concessions for basic sanitation services in Southern Brazil: A generalized synthetic control analysis

Larissa Carvalho Solino Silva, Gibran da Silva Teixeira, Rodrigo Fernandez and Vinícius Halmenschlager

The critical drivers of the Brazilian electricity sector's transition through 2050: A Delphi study

Alex Sandro Feil, Carlos Henggeler Antunes, Patrícia Pereira da Silva and Nivalde de Castro

Prosumers as drivers of SDG7 in Palestine: Net-benefit analysis of grid-connected photovoltaic systems

Alberto Biancardi, Idiano D'Adamo, Franco D'Amore and Raimond Moretti

Impact of Russia's invasion of Ukraine on renewable energy development in Germany and Italy

Justyna Maliszewska-Nienartowicz

Impact of governance on resilience in the energy transition. An analysis of China and Germany

Wei Ye and Warathida Chaiyapa

Volume 86, issue C, 2024

Baseline methods for distributed flexibility in power systems considering resource, market, and product characteristics

Leandro Lind, José Pablo Chaves-Ávila, Orlando Valarezo, Anibal Sanjab and Luis Olmos

Data integration in asset management of municipal pipe networks in Sweden: Challenges, gaps, and potential drivers

E. Okwori, M. Viklander and A. Hedström

The electrification-social development nexus in Bangladesh: Do governmental policies matter?

Mohammad Mijanur Rahaman, Md. Monirul Islam, Sergei Nikolaevich Polbitsyn and Shujaat Abbas

A coordinated approach for a three-echelon solar-wind energy supply with government intervention

Sahar Matinfard, Saeed Yaghoubi and Maedeh Kharaji Manouchehrabadi

Towards a sustainable electricity industry in China: An appraisal of the efficacy of environmental policies

Yang Liu, Kangyin Dong, Xiucheng Dong and Farhad Taghizadeh-Hesary

A robust benchmarking of direct margin in Italy's energy retail markets

Simone Di Leo, Marta Chicca, Cinzia Daraio, Andrea Guerrini and Stefano Scarcella

Generation Expansion Planning considering environmental impact and sustainable development for an Indian state using the LEAP platform

Karunanithi K, Ramesh S, S.P. Raja and Pranav Kumar Rowlo

Does internet use promote clean energy use for cooking by women-headed rural households in China?

Aqian Yan, Xiaofeng Luo, Junbiao Zhang and Lin Tang

Excess demand or excess supply? A comparison of renewable energy certificate markets in the United Kingdom and Australia

Yunfei Wang, Jinke Li, Nigel O'Leary and Jing Shao

Measuring the eco-efficiency of municipal solid waste service: A fuzzy DEA model for handling missing data

Corrado lo Storto

Volume 85, issue C, 2023

Influence of the perceived neighborhood environment on Paying for domestic waste management services in rural China: Evidence from the Xiangtan Prefecture

Yang Zhang, Kun Zhang, Congyan Liu, Fangshu Li and Bing Xu

Does a zero-waste strategy in sustainable urban waste management affect hierarchy targets and costs?

Giulia Romano and Lucio Masserini

Congestion management in electricity distribution networks: Smart tariffs, local markets and direct control

Roman J. Hennig, Laurens J. de Vries and Simon H. Tindemans

On sharing the costs of public drinking water infrastructure renewal among users with different preferences

Tina Rambonilaza, Bénédicte Rulleau and Epiphane Assouan

In-state generation requirements and the acceptability of renewable portfolio standards

Todd Cherry, Peri M. Brimley, Joseph D. Longuevan and Linda Thunström

Screening for collusion in wholesale electricity markets: A literature review

David Brown, Andrew Eckert and Douglas Silveira

Failure to consider environmental risk: The case for biodiversity impact disclosure in the electricity sector

David Talbot, Guillaume Barbat, Olivier Boiral and Eduardo Ordonez-Ponce

Energy-water interdependencies across the three major United States electric grids: A multi-sectoral analysis

Kendall Mongird, Jennie S. Rice, Konstantinos Oikonomou and Juliet Homer

Towards a water-smart society: Progress in linking theory and practice

Sigrid Damman, Alexandra Schmuck, Rosário Oliveira, Koop, Steven (Stef) H.A., Maria do Céu Almeida, Helena Alegre and Rita Maria Ugarelli

Environmental legislation and waste management efficiency in Italian regions in view of circular economy goals

Massimiliano Agovino, Massimiliano Cerciello, Aamir Javed and Agnese Rapposelli

Grid tariff designs to address electrification and their allocative impacts

Philipp Andreas Gunkel, Claire-Marie Bergaentzlé, Dogan Keles, Fabian Scheller and Henrik Klinge Jacobsen

Estimating production functions to determine the marginal economic value and price elasticity of water in the Chilean industrial sector

Cristian Mardones and Antonia Orellana

Local-level ownership of electricity grids: An analysis of Germany's distribution system operators (DSOs)

Thorsten Reppert

Water poverty in a ‘Hydro Nation’: Exploring distributional and recognitional water injustice in Scotland

Heather K. Anderson, Heather Price and Sam Staddon

Motivating the formation of partnerships by small water systems

Anita Milman, Olivia Ashjian James and Cameron Macuch

Scenarios for transitioning the electricity sector of the Republic of Serbia to sustainable climate neutrality by 2050

Marina Jovanović, Vukman Bakić, Predrag Škobalj, Dejan Cvetinović, Aleksandar Erić, Nikola Živković and Neven Duić

Prepaid water meters and water distribution system improvement: A case study of Jenin city, Palestine

Ryuji Ogata, Phatta Thapa, Hirotaka Sato, Fatemeh Masouleh and Khairia Souqia

Driving industrial and economic growth in Central and Eastern Europe: The role of electricity infrastructure and renewable energy

Aleksandra Fedajev, Petar Mitić, Milena Kojić and Magdalena Radulescu

Calculating the realized investment returns of U.S. electric utilities

Madeline Yozwiak

Mind the gap: Community member perceptions of shortcomings in diversity and inclusivity of local energy projects in Germany

Jörg Radtke and Nino S. Bohn

Aggressive bidding and the renegotiation of concession contracts: Empirical evidence from Peru*

Jose Bonifaz and Eduardo Saavedra

Volume 84, issue C, 2023

Cost efficiency of Tunisian water utility districts: Does heterogeneity matter?

Tawfik Ben Amor and Thuraya Mellah

Transition mapping for modern energy service provision under uncertainty: A case study from Brazil

Viviane Tavares Nascimento, Patricia Albuquerque Gimenes, Miguel Edgar Morales Udaeta, André L. Veiga Gimenes, Victor Baiochi Riboldi and Tuo Ji

Privately-owned utilities in 19th century Western Australia

Malcolm Abbott

Grid investment and subsidy tradeoffs in renewable electricity auctions

Daniel Davi-Arderius, Elisa Trujillo-Baute and Pablo del Río

Factors affecting nonpayment of water service by rural households in Nepal

Dipesh Karki

Effectiveness of carbon emissions trading and renewable energy portfolio standards in the Chinese provincial and coupled electricity markets

Xiaohua Song and Peng Wang

Pragmatism as an approach for decision-making: Why two Kenyan water utilities opted for pre-paid water dispensers

Klaas Schwartz and Akosua Boakye-Ansah

Gamification model for communicating and evaluating renewable energy planning

Verónica Marrero-Trujillo, Jessica Arias-Gaviria, Santiago Arango-Aramburo and Erik R. Larsen

Ways to promote investments in sustainable energy utilities in the central Asian regional economic cooperation program region

Xueping Qu and Aidi Xu

Revisiting recycled water for the next drought; a case study of South East Queensland, Australia

Christina Anne James, Marie Kavanagh, Carl Manton and Jeffrey Soar

Assessing the role of green finance in sustainable energy investments by power utilities: Evidence from China

Yang Liu, Xiaomeng Zhao, Kangyin Dong and Qingzhe Jiang

Assessing the integration of planning instruments for urban land use and water service

Constanza Gonzalez-Mathiesen, Cristian Palma, Cesar Jara and Richard Zapata

Facilitating the provision of load flexibility to the power system by data centers: A hybrid research method applied to China

Yujie Cao and Sufang Zhang

Development and application of regional urban water security indicators

Rahul Ray Biswas and Anisur Rahman

Regulatory analysis of E-mobility for Brazil: A comparative review and outlook

Carmen Brum Rosa, Matheus Binotto Francescatto, Alvaro Luiz Neuenfeldt Júnior, Daniel Pinheiro Bernardon and Laura Lisiane Callai dos Santos

Promoting energy inclusiveness: Is rural energy poverty a political failure?

Alex Acheampong, Xuan-Hoa Nghiem, Janet Dzator and Gulasekaran Rajaguru

Crossing the cross-subsidy: Evidence from China's electricity sector

Wei Wu, Naishan Zhang, Yingying Hu, Dengli Zhou and Houyin Long

Management control by municipal utilities for value creation to achieve the sustainable development goals

Philumena Bauer, Albert Anton Traxler and Dorothea Greiling

Projects of common interest? Evaluation of European electricity interconnectors

András Mezősi, Enikő Kácsor and Alfa Diallo

Biogas Energy Resources in Pakistan Status, Potential, and Barriers

Muhammad Wakeel, Tasawer Hayat, Noor Samad Shah, Jibran Iqbal, Zia Ul Haq Khan, Ghulam Mustafa Shah and Atta Rasool

Efficiency of water service management alternatives in Spain considering environmental factors

Emilio José de la Higuera-Molina, Cristina María Campos-Alba, Germán López-Pérez and José Luis Zafra-Gómez

Institutional and contextual drivers of and barriers to incentive-based demand response: A comparative case study in the Pacific Northwest

Anna Devenish

Efficient firms are all alike, but every inefficient firm is such in its own way: Heterogeneity of costs determinants in the Italian water sector

Antonio Massarutto, Luca Grassetti, Michele Lambardi di San Miniato and Mattia Moletta

Detection of unauthorized consumption in water supply systems: A case study using logistic regression

Kairo Pereira Teodoro da Silva, Andreza Kalbusch and Elisa Henning

Water democracy under European Union law: Requiring participatory services management

Antonio Di Marco

Stakeholder engagement in the public utility sector: Evidence from Italian ESG reports

Lisa Bonetti, Alessandro Lai and Riccardo Stacchezzini

Exploring the asymmetric impact of sustainability reporting on financial performance in the utilities sector: A longitudinal comparative analysis

Nieves Remo-Diez, Cristina Mendaña-Cuervo and Mar Arenas-Parra

Sustainability reporting and electric utilities: A bibliometric analysis

Rossella Leopizzi, Pamela Palmi and Pierluca Di Cagno

Comparing multi-criteria models for ranking the Performance of India's water supply utilities

Akanksha Srivastava, Dipteek Parmar and Dragan Pamucar

Energy market integration: Harmonizing tariff recourse policies in East Africa

Muhumuza Ezra Rubanda, Livingstone Senyonga, Mohammed Ngoma and Muyiwa S. Adaramola

Marginal vs. average effective load carrying capability: How should capacity markets deal with alternative generation forms?

Todd Aagaard and Andrew N. Kleit

The moderating role of remittances in the energy security-poverty nexus in developing countries

Yogeeswari Subramaniam, Nanthakumar Loganathan and Thirunaukarasu Subramaniam

Initiating data-as-a-service adoption in water utilities: A service design approach

Amir Cahn, David Katz, Andrea Ghermandi and Peter Prevos

Has retail competition reduced residential electricity prices in Texas?

Jay Zarnikau, K.H. Cao, H.S. Qi and C.K. Woo