Showing papers in "Utilities Policy in 2021"

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examined Ghana's renewable energy (RE) sector environment using PESTLE analysis (Political, Economic, Social, Technological, Legal, and Environmental) to rank the various identified factors using inputs from 20 experts in Ghana's RE sector.

TL;DR: A novel short-term load forecasting model that hybridizes several machine learning methods, such as support vector regression (SVR), grey catastrophe (GC), and random forest (RF) modeling is developed.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examined the linkages among information and communication technologies (ICT) penetration, electricity consumption, economic growth, urbanization, and environmental pollution for 25 OECD countries over the 1990-2017 period.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors present a broad review of the literature from a database containing 118 publications from 2015 to 2020, and highlight that collaboration, coordination and stakeholder engagement are the crucial elements that water governance models should include to address the global sustainability challenge.

TL;DR: In this paper, the effect of information and communication technology (ICT) and corruption on carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions in the context of the Environmental Kuznets curve (EKC) hypothesis was investigated.

TL;DR: A bootstrap aggregated-stack generalized architecture for very short-term electricity price forecasting is proposed to facilitate market participants in formulating strategies in real time and to outperform the existing techniques.

TL;DR: Comparing national policies and programs in Europe and North America and identifying prevailing practices for implementing privacy goals for residential energy customers provides the basis for privacy standards that could apply to advanced-metering customer data across countries, even with rapidly evolving technology.

TL;DR: The authors conducted a systematic review of previous research on water sector public-private partnerships (PPPs) projects and identified five key topics within water-related PPP studies: risk management, PPP contractual arrangements, financing and tariffs, infrastructure, and governance.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors highlight the key issues of energy project performance alongside construction activities that were halted during the COVID-19 outbreak to follow social distancing, lockdown, and public safety parameters.

TL;DR: Insight is provided into the impact of COVID-19 on the delivery of water sector projects and how organizational practices have adapted from business as usual.

TL;DR: In this article, a database that included past electricity consumption data from all OECD countries was prepared, and the entire database was modeled and simulated via machine learning techniques to forecast the energy consumption of each country.

TL;DR: In this article, six policy alternatives that can impose different financial risks on photovoltaic prosumers, including whether or not there are complementary incentives, are considered, based on an analysis of the financial risk to prosumers in Sao Paulo state in terms of the conditional value at risk of net present value.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors assessed the energy supply-demand gap, progress, and prospects of alternative energy sources in Bangladesh and found that the gap between supply and consumption is approximately 26%, but this can be resolved by addressing energy diversification barriers related to policy, governance through regulatory actions, investment, transmission and distribution, resources optimisation, energy efficiency, conservation, research and education, and regional cooperation.

TL;DR: Wang et al. as mentioned in this paper constructed a tripartite evolutionary game model including the government, focal enterprises, and the public to simulate and analyze their behavioral strategies and the sensitivity to relevant influencing factors at different phases of infrastructure projects.

TL;DR: The results demonstrate that this framework presents a more comprehensive assessment of airport performance rather than conventional data envelopment analysis models and provides to show the deficiencies of the structural and operational management of airports.

TL;DR: Considering the urgency of the clean energy transformation, the authors evaluates and analyzes the sustainability of five power generation subsectors in China, comprehensively considering economic, environmental, technological, and social dimensions.

TL;DR: In this paper, a parsimonious model demonstrates the impacts of rooftop solar photovoltaics on the local mid-day wholesale energy prices in Western Australia, and solutions focus on flattening the load curve and addressing minimum system load issues, including tariff reform, new ancillary services, automation, storage and energy productivity.

TL;DR: In this article, the impact of service quality parameters (SQPs) on the technical efficiency of the electricity distribution system is examined. But the authors focus on the impact on the overall TFP of the distribution system.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors assessed the socioeconomic and environmental indicators of HWT among Nigerian households and found that low adoption and disparity in HWT could significantly undermine public health and exacerbate socioeconomic and regional inequalities.

TL;DR: Wang et al. as mentioned in this paper examined what drives the diffusion of the new underground utility tunnel (UUT) policy with an analysis of 242 prefecture-level cities in China, and found that horizontal competition, central government pressure and incentives, international resource utilization and image pressure, urban economic development, and administrative rank are positively and significantly associated with policy diffusion, whereas urbanization, population density, and existing underground pipelines are not significant.

TL;DR: The United States has experienced swings of public and private operation of its water services for more than 150 years as discussed by the authors, and there are also signs of more "politicized" forms of water remunicipalization taking place.

TL;DR: In this paper, the effect of solar photovoltaic system installation on the electricity consumption in residential households across various geographic regions in San Diego was examined using meter-level data.

TL;DR: In this paper, the impact of three decades of Indian policy reform towards reviving the techno-commercial performance of the SOEUs is critically assessed, and corrective policy measures are recommended.

TL;DR: In this article, the results of a survey show low levels of diversity, and that it is particularly women and younger people who are less engaged in community energy, which infringes in particular the just transition criterion of intra-generational equity.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors argue that the leading cause of failure is isomorphic mimicry, and they further suggest that only with a better alignment of PIR can adequate incentives be provided for universal and sustainable WSS.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors present an overview to help clarify some of the aspects behind forming a successful framework capable of making the right decisions for the future in the Southeast Europe (SEE) region.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors investigated and compared different groups of customers (stayers and switchers) in terms of antecedents of customer loyalty in the telecommunications (telecom) sector, specifically, customer satisfaction, perceived service quality, perceived price fairness, perceived justice in service recovery, and relational bonds.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors discuss how social movements using civil disobedience challenge democratic procedures related to energy transitions, focusing on justifications of civil disobedience through a case study of Ende Gelande, a climate justice alliance operating mainly in Germany.

TL;DR: In this paper, the efficiency of Mexican water utilities was studied by applying double bootstrap data envelopment analysis (DEA) to analyze the effect of type of management and reform policies on efficiency.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors measure and benchmark the environmental performance of Portuguese utilities jointly active in the three sectors of water supply, wastewater collection and solid waste management, and suggest the use of a traditional (optimistic) directional distance Benefit of the Doubt index.