IEEE Transactions on Energy Markets, Policy and Regulation is a rigorously peer-reviewed journal disseminating relevant knowledge and developments in the organization and structure of rapidly evolving multi-energy supply and demand systems. It publishes articles on energy system frameworks, policies, and regulations, such as multi-tier energy market structures, pricing policies, and auction rules. The Journal promotes the decarbonization of supply, distribution, and demand in multi-energy systems, and drives robust and sustainable investments in resilient and green energy systems considering all stakeholders’ needs. Published articles are supported by detailed engineering, economic and policy analyses and assessments of the topics discussed, based on relevant principles, models, techniques and tools.

Topics within the journal scope:

Energy Markets:

Economics and assessment of energy markets
Design, clearing, pricing and settlement of markets for energy, capacity, flexibility and ancillary services
Interactions between markets
Economics of renewables, demand response and storage
Retail electricity markets
Retail tariff design
Peer-to-peer and local trading
Market participation, market power and market monitoring
Congestion management and redispatch
Risk management
Impact on energy markets of environmental policies such as constraints, emissions trading, and renewables support mechanisms
Investments in market assets
Bidding strategies
Energy finance
Emissions trading
Water/energy nexus

Energy Policy:

Policies of rural electrification, microgrids and rural development
Net-zero economics and policy
Energy, climate, and environmental justice
Impacts of society-scale electrification on the electric power sector
Incentives for system development
Impact assessments of energy policies
Multi-energy systems and market coupling
Policies to support innovations in the energy sector
Development of data and scenarios for system expansion

Regulation:

Network cost allocation and tariff design
Regulation of network monopolies
Rate design and Incentive regulation
Cost-benefit analysis of network investments
Impact assessments of regulations
Market power and market monitoring
Transmission and distribution expansion and planning
Integrated resource planning
Economics of reliability and resiliency.

Examples of topics out-of-scope:

Papers whose primary focus is the development of an analysis or optimization technique and address energy markets, policy, and regulation issues only in an incidental manner.