Utilities Policy is a leading peer-reviewed resource for academic researchers, government officials, industry professionals, sector analysts, and consultants in the global utilities policy community. The journal bridges theory and practice by disseminating original applied research that is rigorous, contemporary, and policy relevant. In addition to full-length articles and special issues organized around salient themes, the journal also publishes concise research notes, policy notes, and communications. The journal's primary objective is to advance knowledge in the field through a rigorous and timely peer-review and publication process.

Utilities Policy is deliberately international, interdisciplinary, and intersectoral. Articles address utility trends and issues in both developed and developing economies. Authors and reviewers come from various disciplines, including economics, political science, sociology, law, finance, accounting, management, and engineering. Areas of focus include the utility and network industries providing essential electricity, natural gas, water and wastewater, solid waste, communications, broadband, postal, and public transportation services.

Utilities Policy invites submissions that apply various quantitative and qualitative methods. Contributions are welcome from both established and emerging scholars as well as accomplished practitioners. Interdisciplinary, comparative, and applied works are encouraged. Submissions to the journal should have a clear focus on governance, performance, and/or analysis of public utilities with an aim toward informing the policymaking process and providing recommendations as appropriate. Relevant topics and issues include but are not limited to industry structures and ownership, market design and dynamics, economic development, resource planning, system modeling, accounting and finance, infrastructure investment, supply and demand efficiency, strategic management and productivity, network operations and integration, supply chains, adaptation and flexibility, service-quality standards, benchmarking and metrics, benefit-cost analysis, behavior and incentives, pricing and demand response, economic and environmental regulation, regulatory performance and impact, restructuring and deregulation, and policy institutions. 

Audience: Academic researchers, government officials, industry professionals, sector analysts, and consultants in the global utilities policy community. 

Full-length papers 
Research Notes
Policy Notes
Communications

Editor-in-Chief
Janice Beecher
Michigan State University, Institute of Public Utilities, East Lansing, Michigan, United States Email Janice Beecher
Editorial Board
Sanford Berg
University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, United States
Judith Clifton
University of Cantabria, Santander, Spain
Antonio Estache
ULB, Bruxelles, Belgium
Frank Felder
Rutgers The State University of New Jersey, New Brunswick, New Jersey, United States
Matthias Finger
Federal Polytechnic School of Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland
Massimo Florio
University of Milan, Milano, Italy
Gürcan Gülen
University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas, United States
Catherine Keske Hoag
Colorado State University, Fort Collins, Colorado, United States
Stephen Littlechild
University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom
Rui Cunha Marques
University of Lisbon, Lisboa, Portugal
Michael Pollitt
University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom
Stephen D. Thomas
University of Greenwich, London, United Kingdom
Lourdes Trujillo Castellano
University of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Gran Canaria, Canary Islands, Spain