Utilities Policy

1990 - 2025

Current editor(s): Beecher, Janice

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Volume 83, issue C, 2023

Investigating how board gender diversity affects environmental, social and governance performance: Evidence from the utilities sector

Asad Mehmood, Francesco De Luca and Hao Quach

Urban residential water and electricity consumption behavior: A systematic literature review

Walter Salas-Zapata, Lorena Hoyos-Medina and Diana Mejía-Durango

Operational drivers of water reuse efficiency in Portuguese wastewater service providers

António L. Amaral, Rita Martins and Luis Dias

The impact of transparency policies on local flexibility markets in electric distribution networks

Erik Heilmann

Circular economy in the water and wastewater sector: Tariff impact and financial performance of SMARTechs

Luca Piubello Orsini, Chiara Leardini, Letizia Danesi, Andrea Guerrini and Nicola Frison

A regulatory robust conditional approach to measuring the efficiency of wholesale water supply and wastewater treatment services

Miguel Alves Pereira, Hermilio Vilarinho, D’Inverno, Giovanna and Ana S. Camanho

How does sustainable energy utilities integration promote green recovery? Case of central and Eastern Europe

Bing Han, Yuanjie Pu and Yanqiu Wu

Determinants of water loss in Portuguese utilities

Inês Meireles, Vitor Sousa, José Pedro Matos and Carlos Oliveira Cruz

Evolution of the EU legal framework for promoting RES-E: A market compatible paradigm shift?

Ting Chen and Frederik Vandendriessche

Water affordability across and within European countries: a microdata analysis

Rita Martins, Carlota Quintal, Carla Teotónio and Micaela Antunes

Seeing more than reading:The visual mode in utilities' sustainability reports

Pasquale Ruggiero and Patricia Bachiller

Does district heating affect residential property prices? Case study of an urban area in South Korea

Ju-Hee Kim, Seul-Ye Lim and Seung-Hoon Yoo

Understanding municipal solid waste production and diversion factors utilizing deep-learning methods

Yidan Zhao and Hong Li

How environmental policy stringency affects renewable energy investment? Implications for green investment horizons

Naif Alsagr

Effects of remittances on renewable energy consumption: Evidence from instrumental variable estimation with panel data

Shamal Chandra Karmaker, Munim Kumar Barai, Kanchan Kumar Sen and Bidyut Baran Saha

Consumer price effects of deregulated electric generation markets: The case of Ohio and the midwestern United States

William M. Bowen, Hill, Edward (Ned), Andrew Thomas, Ruoran Liu and Mark Henning

Validity of decision criteria for selecting power-to-gas projects in Poland

Rafał Goraj, Marcin Kiciński, Rafał Ślefarski and Anna Duczkowska

Volume 82, issue C, 2023

The environmental impact of stock market capitalization and energy transition: Natural resource dynamics and international trade

Yunbao Liang, Jesus Cantero Galiano and Hongxia Zhou

Dynamic correlated effects of electricity prices, biomass energy, and technological innovation in Tunisia's energy transition

Siying Li, Javier Cifuentes-Faura, Besma Talbi, Muhammad Sadiq, Kamel Si Mohammed and Muhammad Farhan Bashir

Exploring the impact of boundedly rational power plant investment decision-making by applying prospect theory

Zhenmin Tao, Jorge Andres Moncada and Erik Delarue

Demunicipalization as political process: Strategic action and the sale of municipal electric utilities in the United States

David J. Hess and Megan L. Jordan

Alternative operational modes for Chinese PV poverty alleviation power stations: Economic impacts on stakeholders

Liping Ding, Zumeng Zhang, Qiyao Dai, Yuxuan Zhu and Yin Shi

A lifecycle-based indicator to support residual solid waste flow planning at the regional level

Sara Toniolo, Chiara Pieretto and Daniela Camana

Valuing water service reliability and in-home water storage: A hedonic price model from Guatemala

Benjamin Leiva, George Van Houtven, William F. Vásquez and Andrea Nájera

Utility governance, incentives, and performance: Evidence from India's urban water sector

Sai Amulya Nyathikala, Tooraj Jamasb, Manuel Llorca and Mukul Kulshrestha

Signaling future or historical distribution grid costs via tariffs? A welfare analysis of long-run incremental cost pricing

Niels Govaerts, Kenneth Bruninx, Hélène Le Cadre, Leonardo Meeus and Erik Delarue

Clean energy transition in the Turkish power sector: A techno-economic analysis with a high-resolution power expansion model

Bora Kat

The bill alignment test: Identifying trade-offs with residential rate design options

Christina E. Simeone, Pieter Gagnon, Peter Cappers and Andrew Satchwell

Limitations of weight restrictions in data envelopment analysis for benchmarking Brazilian electricity distribution system operators

Marcelo Azevedo Costa, Ana Lúcia Lopes-Ahn, Alexander de Carvalho Kilger and Artur Fontenelle Micas

Sustainable green electricity, technological innovation, and ecological footprint: Does democratic accountability moderate the nexus?

Jiapeng Dai, Zahoor Ahmed, Avik Sinha, Ugur Korkut Pata and Rafael Alvarado

Does digital transformation improve the operational efficiency of Chinese power enterprises?

Boqiang Lin and Yongjing Xie

Electricity from renewable energy resources: Sustainable energy transition and emissions for developed economies

Chunjiao Gao and Hongxi Chen

Profit productivity change in the English and Welsh water sector: Impact of the price reviews

Manuel Mocholi-Arce, Ramon Sala-Garrido, Maria Molinos-Senante and Alexandros Maziotis

Achieving sustainable development goal 7 in Africa: Does globalization matter for electricity access, renewable energy consumption, and energy efficiency?

Hervé Kaffo Fotio, Samuel Adams, Hilaire Nkengfack and Boker Poumie

Forecasting renewable energy utilization by Iran's water and wastewater industries

Mohammad Vahabi Khah, Rahim Zahedi, Mohammad Sadegh Mousavi and Abolfazl Ahmadi

Assessing water conservation behaviour of India's urban households

Sudheer Bhakta S, Lewlyn LR Rodrigues and K.V. Sriram

Responsiveness of water-sector regulation in Brazil to the Covid-19 pandemic: A view through the human rights lens

D.M. Victral and L. Heller

Worldwide evidence of corporate governance influence on ESG disclosure in the utilities sector

Giuseppe Nicolo, Giovanni Zampone, Giuseppe Sannino and Adriana Tiron-Tudor

Water sector resilience in the United Kingdom and Ireland: The COVID-19 challenge

Nathan L. Walker, David Styles and A. Prysor Williams

Sustainability policies to reduce pollution in energy supply and waste sectors in the V4 countries

Mihaela Simionescu and Javier Cifuentes-Faura

Asymmetric price response of industrial electricity demand in India

Nhan Tran and Naresh Chandra Sahu

Natural hazard risk management in the Chilean drinking water industry: Diagnosis and recommendations

María Molinos-Senante, Alondra Chamorro, Marta Contreras and Tomas Echaveguren

Understanding the role of efficiency in the electricity generation process for promoting human development in India: Findings from the novel multiple threshold nonlinear ARDL modelling

Narasingha Das, Partha Gangopadhyay, Thamer Alghamdi, Suleman Sarwar, Mohammad Haseeb, Abdulkadir Barut and Labani Dey

Materiality investor perspectives on utilities’ ESG performance. An empirical analysis of ESG factors and cost of equity

Chiara Mio, Marco Fasan and Francesco Scarpa

Exploratory analysis of the water governance frameworks regarding the OECD principles in two river basins in Brazil and Portugal

Mirella Motta e Costa and Susana Neto

Operating in the shadowland: Why water utilities fail to manage decaying infrastructure

Amelie Bennich, Mats Engwall and David Nilsson

Quality performance gaps and minimal electricity losses in East Africa

Axel Gautier, René Nsabimana and Barnabé Walheer

Performance analytics for regulation in retail water utilities: Guiding asset management by identifying peers and targets

Hermilio Vilarinho, D’Inverno, Giovanna, Henriqueta Nóvoa and Ana S. Camanho

Efficiency and productivity of renewable energy technologies: Evidence from U.S. investor-owned utilities across regional markets

Olawale Ogunrinde and Ekundayo Shittu

Environmental benefits of energy poverty alleviation, renewable resources, and urbanization in North Africa

Rehab R. Esily, Chi Yuanying, Dalia M. Ibrahiem, Nourhane Houssam, Randa A. Makled and Yahui Chen

How are public utilities responding to electricity market restructuring and the energy transition? Lessons from Israel

Avri Eitan

Does information intervention influence residential waste-source separation behavior?

Jing Ma, Zhaoyun Yin and Edward A. McBean

Mutual benefits of sustainability integration in the value chain: Responsible innovation by public utilities

Nora Annesi, Massimo Battaglia and Lorenza Sganzetta

The value of distributed flexibility for reducing generation and network reinforcement costs

Marion Pichou, Virginie Dussartre, Maxime Lâasri and Jan Horst Keppler

Developing sustainable power systems by evaluating techno-economic, environmental, and social indicators from a system dynamics approach

Matin Karbasioun, Afshin Gholamalipour, Nasser Safaie, Rasool Shirazizadeh and Majid Amidpour

Financial inclusion and energy poverty reduction in sub-Saharan Africa

Rabie Said and Alex Acheampong

Exploring tax-related sustainability reporting by electric utilities

Manuel Branco, Delfina Gomes and Adelaide Martins

Challenges of recycled water pricing

Thalita Salgado Fagundes and Rc Marques

Innovative water rates as a policy tool for drought response: Two case studies from Utah, USA

Robert B. Sowby and Andrew J. South

Efficient resource utilization of the electricity distribution sector using nonparametric data envelopment analysis and influential factors

Majid Ikram, Muhammad Zahid Rafique, Kamel Si Mohammed, Rida Waheed and Diogo Ferraz

Unveiling underconsumption of water and electricity services at the bottom of the income distribution

C. Teotónio, Rita Martins, Micaela Antunes and C. Quintal

The rhetoric of community participation in urban South African water governance

Thembelani Tyhotyholo and Bongani Ncube

Funding the green transition: Governance quality, public debt, and renewable energy consumption in Sub-Saharan Africa

Favour Chidinma Onuoha, Stephen Kelechi Dimnwobi, Kingsley Ikechukwu Okere and Chukwunonso Ekesiobi

Progress on sustainable development goal 6 in refugee camps in the Middle East: a comparative study

Mai Wardeh and Rc Marques

Evidence of supply security and sustainability challenges in Nigeria’s power sector

Cosimo Magazzino, Carlo Drago and Nicolas Schneider

Renewable energy project implementation: Will the Baltic States catch up with the Nordic countries?

Krista Laktuka, Ieva Pakere, Antra Kalnbalkite, Beate Zlaugotne and Dagnija Blumberga

Economic evaluation of variable renewable energy participation in U.S. ancillary services markets

James Hyungkwan Kim, Fredrich Kahrl, Andrew Mills, Ryan Wiser, Cristina Crespo Montañés and Will Gorman

Solving electric power distribution uncertainty using deep learning and incentive-based demand response

Balakumar Palaniyappan, Vinopraba T and Geetha Chandrasekaran

Drivers and barriers to participation in Sweden's local flexibility markets for electricity

J. Palm, A.-R. Kojonsaari, I. Öhrlund, N. Fowler and C. Bartusch

The role of sustainable energy utility, natural resource utilization and waste management in reducing energy poverty: Evidence from South Asian countries

Fengsheng Chien, Muhammad Sadiq, Li Li and Arshian Sharif

How committed are swiss utilities to energy saving without being obligated to do so?

Imane Fouiteh, José Daniel Cabrera Santelices and Martin K. Patel

National and Regional Economic Impacts of changes in Germany's electricity mix: A dynamic analysis through 2050

Yaghoob Jafari, Helena Engemann, Thomas Heckelei and Karlo Hainsch

Waste management, quality of life and natural resources utilization matter for renewable electricity generation: The main and moderate role of environmental policy

Syed Ale Raza Shah, Qianxiao Zhang, Jaffar Abbas, Hui Tang and Khalid Ibrahim Al-Sulaiti

Effects of the circular economy, environmental policy, energy transition, and geopolitical risk on sustainable electricity generation

Muhammad Zubair Chishti, Eyup Dogan and Umer Zaman

Empirical analysis of the Russian power industry's transition to sustainability

Nurcan Kilinc-Ata and Liliana Proskuryakova

Risk disclosure in sustainability reports: Empirical evidence from the energy sector

Filippo Vitolla, Nicola Raimo, Francesco Campobasso and Anastasia Giakoumelou

Outage-induced power backup choice in Pakistan

Faisal Jamil and Tanweer Islam