With rapid economic development, related social issues have become more prominent than
before. How to effectively encourage enterprises to undertake more corporate social …

Consumers' irrational reluctance to invest in energy efficiency has raised the policymakers'
concern, who started to question the suitability of traditional energy programs. To address …

The use of government incentives tied to market prices as means of boosting corporate
social responsibility (CSR) has expanded notably in recent decades. Enhanced business …

This white paper focuses on" advanced microgrids," but sections do, out of necessity,
reference today's commercially available systems and installations in order to clearly …

Where policy goals can be achieved through regulation of private firms, private provision of
public services allows governments to separate public policies from their political costs by …

The transition of the energy system into a more efficient state requires innovative ideas to
finance new schemes and engage people into adjusting their behavioural patterns …

In practice, the market risk caused by stochastic market demand is a main risk affecting the
shared savings contract implementation in energy performance contracting. We develop a …

We analyze the design of policies to promote efficient distributed generation (DG) of
electricity. The optimal policy varies with the set of instruments available to the regulator and …

We study the optimal tariff structure that could induce a regulated utility to promote energy
efficiency by its customers given that it is privately informed about the effectiveness of its …

This paper examines the impact of revenue decoupling policies on energy efficiency
spending by electric utility companies in the US. I identify this impact by using the variation in …