Spatial competition for biogas production using insights from retail location models

M. Bojesen, M. Birkin and G. Clarke

Energy, 2014, vol. 68, issue C, 617-628

Abstract: Biogas production is an important contemporary topic within agriculture as well as bioenergy production, both from an industrial and an academic point of view. The Danish biogas sector, which has been around for many years, is still struggling to establish itself as an economically viable energy production sector. Through a two-step approach by combining a location-allocation model with a production constrained spatial interaction model, this paper addresses the dual problem of determining optimal location and production capacity. What-if scenarios, in combination with the strategic economic analysis framework developed in this paper, facilitate the analysis and discussion of how national policies can be fulfilled.

Keywords: Location-allocation; Spatial interaction modelling; Biogas; Decision support (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2014
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DOI: 10.1016/j.energy.2013.12.039

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