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Beyond choice: Value-focused thinking to evaluate resource alternatives for Sub-Saharan Africa's energy transition 超越选择：以价值为中心的思维评估撒哈拉以南非洲能源转型的资源选择

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Utilities Policy Pub Date : 2025-08-06 DOI: 10.1016/j.jup.2025.102015

Olaoluwa Paul Aasa , Sarah Phoya , Rehema J. Monko , Innocent Musonda

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Variations in domestic water consumption in Hyderabad, India 印度海得拉巴的家庭用水变化

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Utilities Policy Pub Date : 2025-08-05 DOI: 10.1016/j.jup.2025.102017

Adithya Bandari, Shubhajit Sadhukhan

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Rethinking electricity demand-side response: Relational approaches to the challenge of residential flexibility in Italy 重新思考电力需求侧响应：意大利住宅灵活性挑战的相关方法

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Utilities Policy Pub Date : 2025-08-05 DOI: 10.1016/j.jup.2025.102019

Aurore Dudka

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Cascading social risks: A cross-spatial vulnerability analysis of atypical power system failures in China 级联社会风险：中国非典型电力系统故障的跨空间脆弱性分析

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Utilities Policy Pub Date : 2025-07-29 DOI: 10.1016/j.jup.2025.102011

Mingyu Wu, Xuesong Guo, Yu Zhao

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Modeling the impact of electric vehicle charging on Lisbon's electricity distribution network 模拟电动汽车充电对里斯本配电网络的影响

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Utilities Policy Pub Date : 2025-07-24 DOI: 10.1016/j.jup.2025.102014

Miguel Mouquinho Cardinha , Rui Amaral Lopes , Nuno Amaro

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Competitiveness of utility-scale solar photovoltaic power generation in Brazil from 2014 to 2022 2014 - 2022年巴西公用事业规模太阳能光伏发电竞争力分析

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Utilities Policy Pub Date : 2025-07-22 DOI: 10.1016/j.jup.2025.102013

Artur Santa Catarina, Gisele de Lorena Diniz Chaves

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Convergence dynamics of urban and rural electricity access rates across African countries 非洲国家城乡通电率趋同动态

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Utilities Policy Pub Date : 2025-07-21 DOI: 10.1016/j.jup.2025.102012

Sakiru Adebola Solarin

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The impact of the delegated management model of urban piped service delivery on water quality in Kisumu, Kenya 肯尼亚基苏木城市管道服务委托管理模式对水质的影响

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Utilities Policy Pub Date : 2025-07-21 DOI: 10.1016/j.jup.2025.102010

Lorna Grace Okotto , Joseph Okotto-Okotto , Peggy Wanza , Jim Wright

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Renewable energy communities and the ecological transition: A game theoretic bargaining approach 可再生能源社区与生态转型：博弈论议价方法

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Utilities Policy Pub Date : 2025-07-18 DOI: 10.1016/j.jup.2025.102006

Leonardo Becchetti , Francesco Salustri

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Modeling electricity demand in China based on macro and micro-level methods 基于宏观和微观方法的中国电力需求建模

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Utilities Policy Pub Date : 2025-07-14 DOI: 10.1016/j.jup.2025.101994

Shaogang Chen, Zizhe Wang

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