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Analyzing the business case for hydrogen-fuel infrastructure investments with endogenous demand in The Netherlands : a real options approach
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Abstract
This paper explicitly incorporated the impact that realized investments in new transportation infrastructure have on adoption speed in a real option framework for taking sustainable investment decisions under uncertainty and analyzed the consequences of this dependence for optimal business investment strategies. We used a modified Generalized Bass Model to shape the adoption diffusion process and incorporate this approach into an N-fold compound real option framework. We applied the combined model to the case study of the introduction of hydrogen fuel stations for hydrogen cars in the Netherlands. We performed a scenario analysis for six different transportation infrastructure investment strategies combined with four different parameterizations. The results show the risk of ignoring the potential interaction between the adoption process and the speed with which the required transportation infrastructure will become available. This may lead to suboptimal decisions with respect to the optimal timing of corporate investment spending, as well as with respect to the assessment of the overall feasibility of the project.
Language
English
Source (journal)
Sustainability
Publication
2020
ISSN
2071-1050
DOI
10.3390/SU12135424
Volume/pages
12 :13 (2020) , p. 1-22
Article Reference
5424
ISI
000555497100001
Medium
E-only publicatie
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Last edited 07.12.2024
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