Utilities Policy

1990 - 2025

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Volume 81, issue C, 2023

Incorporating nonrevenue water in the efficiency assessment of water supply utilities: A parametric enhanced hyperbolic distance function

Kim Huat Goh and Kok Fong See

A stormy future? Financial impact of climate change-related disruptions on nuclear power plant owners

Ali Ahmad, Andrei Covatariu and M.V. Ramana

Gauging energy poverty in developing countries with a composite metric of electricity access

Carlo Drago and Andrea Gatto

Implementation of scarcity pricing without co-optimization in European energy-only balancing markets

Anthony Papavasiliou, Jacques Cartuyvels, Gilles Bertrand and Alain Marien

An experiment in own-price elasticity estimation for non-residential electricity demand in the U.S

K.H. Cao, H.S. Qi, Raymond Li, C.K. Woo, A. Tishler and Jay Zarnikau

Sustainable energy policy, socio-economic development, and ecological footprint: The economic significance of natural resources, population growth, and industrial development

Huo Jie, Irfan Khan, Majed Alharthi, Muhammad Wasif Zafar and Asif Saeed

Adoption of data-as-a-service by water and wastewater utilities

Amir Cahn, David Katz, Andrea Ghermandi and Peter Prevos

Sustainable development indicators for electric power generation companies in Ecuador: A case study

Augusto Polibio Martínez, José Jara-Alvear, Rolando Josué Andrade and Daniel Icaza

Assessing the technical efficiency of container ports based on a non-monotonic inefficiency effects model

Volkan Efecan and İzzettin Temiz

Biodiversity accountability in water utilities: A case study

Andrea Venturelli, Lorenzo Ligorio and Elbano de Nuccio

Enabling independent flexibility service providers to participate in electricity markets: A legal analysis of the Belgium case

Ting Chen and Frederik Vandendriessche

Designing circular economy-compliant municipal solid waste management charging schemes

Giacomo Di Foggia and Massimo Beccarello

Electricity production, government effectiveness eco-innovation, and public health: Novel findings in the context of sustainability policies

Jie Zhou and Fouad Jamaani

Sustainability reporting and public value: Evidence from port authorities

Giuseppe Valenza and Rodolfo Damiano

Does human capital complement sustainable development goals? Evidence from leading carbon emitter countries

Ahmad Haseeb Payab, Pradeep Kautish, Rajesh Sharma, Aaliyah Siddiqui, Atul Mehta and Mujahid Siddiqui

Electricity market development in Vietnam: Historical trends and future outlooks

Thai-Ha Le, Phoumin Han, Ha-Chi Le and Manh-Tien Bui

Evidence on optimal risk allocation models for Indonesian geothermal projects under PPP contracts

Suardi Nur, Bruce Burton and Ariel Bergmann

Efficacies of technological progress and renewable energy transition in amplifying national electrification rates: contextual evidence from developing countries

Muntasir Murshed

Analysis of hourly price granularity implementation in the Brazilian deregulated electricity contracting environment

Ciniro Aparecido Leite Nametala, Wandry Rodrigues Faria, Guilherme Guimarães Lage and Benvindo Rodrigues Pereira

Household access to the public electricity grid in Cameroon: Analysis of connection determinants

Willy Jacques Fotso, Gregory Mvogo and Honoré Bidiasse

Public utility ownership and in-kind trade policy in vertically related markets

Han Eol Ryu

Remittances and energy poverty: Fresh evidence from developing countries

Ronald Djeunankan, Henri Njangang, Sosson Tadadjeu and Brice Kamguia

Transition to greener electricity and resource use impact on environmental quality: Policy based study from OECD countries

Muhammad Adnan Bashir, Zhao Dengfeng, Fouzia Amin, Grzegorz Mentel, Syed Raza and Muhammad Farhan Bashir

Industrial electricity consumption efficiency and energy policy in Japan

Akihiro Otsuka

Do ESG factors improve utilities corporate efficiency and reduce the risk perceived by credit lending institutions? An empirical analysis

Stefania Veltri, Maria Elena Bruni, Gianpaolo Iazzolino, Donato Morea and Giovanni Baldissarro

Volume 80, issue C, 2023

Demand for grid-supplied electricity in the presence of distributed solar energy resources: Evidence from New York City

Kevin Forbes

A perspective on the RIIO formula: Old wine in new bottles

Steve Thomas

Determining factors affecting customer satisfaction of the national electric power company (MERALCO) during the COVID-19 pandemic in the Phillippines

Ardvin Kester S. Ong, Yogi Tri Prasetyo, Ryuichi T. Kishimoto, Klint Allen Mariñas, Kirstien Paola E. Robas, Reny Nadlifatin, Satria Fadil Persada, Poonyawat Kusonwattana and Nattakit Yuduang

Measuring Spanish airport performance: A bootstrap data envelopment analysis of efficiency

Javier Cifuentes-Faura and Ursula Faura-Martínez

Customer complaint management and smart technology adoption by community water systems

Morgan DiCarlo, Emily Zechman Berglund, Nikhil Kaza, Andrew Grieshop, Luke Shealy and Adam Behr

Sustainability reporting and ESG performance in the utilities sector

Francesca Imperiale, Simone Pizzi and Stella Lippolis

Assessing the public-private partnership handover: Experience from China's water sector

Fengyu Bao, Igor Martek, Albert P.C. Chan, Chuan Chen, Yang Yang and Heng Yu

Embedding broader values in the regulatory model: An analysis of Ofgem's consumer value proposition for the natural gas distribution sector

Helen Poulter and Ronan Bolton

Policy and legal frameworks for underground natural gas storage in Iran

Farideh Shabani Jahromi and Farid Shabani Jahromi

Is it all about supply? Demand-side effects on the Spanish electricity market following Covid-19 lockdown policies

Cristina Pizarro-Irizar

Photovoltaic project investment based on the real options method: An analysis of the East China power grid region

Changhui Yang, Qi Jiang, Yangyu Cui and Lijun He

Asymmetric impact of green bonds on energy efficiency: Fresh evidence from quantile estimation

Lei Chang, Mukan Moldir, Yuan Zhang and Raima Nazar

Impacts of green deal policies on the Nordic power market

Niels Oliver Nagel, Christoph Böhringer, Knut Einar Rosendahl and Torjus Folsland Bolkesjø

Impact of Spanish renewable support scheme reforms on the revenues of photovoltaic power plants

Fidel Castro-Rodríguez and Daniel Miles-Touya

Opportunities and challenges for small-scale flexibility in European electricity markets

Andressa Pedro, Mikolaj Krutnik, Van Malcolm Yadack, Lucas Pereira and Hugo Morais

Smartening up: User experience with smart water metering infrastructure in an African city

Godfred Amankwaa, Richard Heeks and Alison L. Browne

Pass-through in residential retail electricity competition: Evidence from Pennsylvania

Christina E. Simeone, Ian Lange and Ben Gilbert

Substitution of piped water and self-supplied groundwater: The case of residential water in South Africa

Ifedotun Aina, Djiby Racine Thiam and Ariel Dinar

Service quality performance indicators for electricity distribution in Brazil

Mário Jorge Cardoso de Mendonça, Amaro Olimpio Pereira, Marlon Max H. Bellido, Luis Alberto Medrano and José Francisco Moreira Pessanha

Optimal microgrid programming based on an energy storage system, price-based demand response, and distributed renewable energy resources

Zhichun Yang, Hao Tian, Huaidong Min, Fan Yang, Wei Hu, Lei Su and Sanam SaeidNahaei

Environmental performance of an urban passenger transport system and influencing factors: A case study of Tianjin, China

Yin Cui, Zhiyong Li, Yu Sun and Weizheng Sun

Drivers of microgrid projects in developed and developing economies

Uchenna Godswill Onu, Antonio Carlos Zambroni de Souza and Benedito Donizeti Bonatto

Success of local flexibility market implementation: A review of current projects

Olivier Rebenaque, Carlo Schmitt, Klemens Schumann, Théo Dronne and Fabien Roques

Volume 79, issue C, 2022

Real-life resilience: Exploring the organisational environment of international water utilities

Eduarda Giffoni, Simon Jude, Heather M. Smith and Simon J.T. Pollard

The ideological stakes of deploying rural broadband in the U.S. state of Georgia

Ian Dunham

Urban broadband infrastructure and green total-factor energy efficiency in China

Huwei Wen, Weitao Liang and Chien-Chiang Lee

Revenue decoupling, energy demand, and energy efficiency: Empirical evidence from the U.S. electricity sector

Victor von Loessl and Heike Wetzel

Greater than the sum: On regulating innovation in electricity distribution networks with externalities

Vítor Marques, Paulo Moisés Costa and Nuno Bento

Structural, governance, & regulatory incentives for improved utility performance: A comparative analysis of electric utilities in Tanzania, Kenya, and Uganda

Peter Twesigye

Open Water: Impacts of Retail Competition on Service Performance and Water-Use Efficiency in England

Maitreyee Mukherjee and Olivia Jensen

Social equity implications of advanced water metering infrastructure

Miriam Solis and Samira Binte Bashar

The efficacy of stress coping strategies in Taiwan's public utilities during the COVID-19 pandemic

Kuo-Tai Cheng and Kirk Chang

Cybersecurity and resilience in the swiss electricity sector: Status and policy options

Fabian Heymann, Stéphane Henry and Matthias Galus

Alternative tariff structures and household composition: Evidence from Spain's Valencia region

Marcos García-López, Borja Montano and Joaquín Melgarejo

Subsidized or subsidizing? Municipal drinking water service funds in California

Gregory Pierce, Justin McBride and Jacqueline Adams

Cost and productivity effects of demographic changes on local water service

Astrid Cullmann and Caroline Stiel

Does the Ukrainian electricity market correspond to the european model?

Magdalena Osinska, Mykola Kyzym, Victoriia Khaustova, Olha Ilyash and Tetiana Salashenko

Economics and policy implications of residential photovoltaic systems in Italy's developed market

Idiano D'Adamo, Massimo Gastaldi, Piergiuseppe Morone and Ilhan Ozturk

Multilevel governance, PV solar energy, and entrepreneurship: the generation of green hydrogen as a fuel of renewable origin

Raquel Fernández-González, Félix Puime-Guillén and Mirela Panait

The role of knowledge in water service coproduction and policy implications

Loris Landriani, Rocco Agrifoglio, Concetta Metallo and Luigi Lepore

Administrative congestion management meets electricity network regulation: Aligning incentives between the renewable generators and network operator

Martin Palovic

Optimizing Brazil's regulated electricity market in the context of time-of-use rates and prosumers with energy storage systems

Vinicius B.F. Costa, Benedito D. Bonatto and Patrícia F. Silva

Decentralized wastewater system practices in developing countries: A systematic review

Happison Muzioreva, Trynos Gumbo, Neema Kavishe, Thembani Moyo and Innocent Musonda

Wholesale electricity market economics of solar generation in Israel

Irena Milstein, Asher Tishler and Chi-Keung Woo

Influencer-defaulter mutation-based optimization algorithms for predicting electricity prices

Priyanka Singh and Rahul Kottath

Effect of electricity price reform on households’ electricity consumption in urban Ethiopia

Sied Hassen, Abebe D. Beyene, Marc Jeuland, Alemu Mekonnen, Tensay Hadush Meles, Samuel Sebsibie, Thomas Klug, Subhrendu Pattanayak and Michael Toman

Predicting residential electricity consumption patterns based on smart meter and household data: A case study from the Republic of Ireland

Zhifeng Guo, Jesse R. O'Hanley and Stuart Gibson

Effects of corruption, technological innovation, globalisation, and renewable energy on carbon emissions in Asian countries

Mohammad Mafizur Rahman and Khosrul Alam

Structural efficiency assessment of regional airports: Lessons from India

Nivea Thomas and Kumar Neeraj Jha

Evolutionary game theory-based system dynamics modeling for community solid waste classification in China

Ye Li, Tianjian Yang and Yu Zhang

Household willingness to pay for a smart water metering and monitoring system: The case of South Korea

A Mi Koo, Ju-Hee Kim and Seung-Hoon Yoo

Institutional capacity determinants in a global south city: the case of a wastewater utility in Zacatecas, Mexico

Alberto Vélez-Ramírez, Patricia Rivera-Castañeda and Dalia M. Muñoz-Pizza

Feasibility analysis of implementing an On Bill Financing program to promote energy-efficiency in Dubai-UAE

Hasan Zulfiquar Kamal and Bassam Abu-Hijleh

An integrated model for electricity market coupling simulations: Evidence from the European power market crossroad

Marko Halužan, Miroslav Verbič and Jelena Zorić