La transition vers l'économie hydrogène: une approche d'économie de réseau: les enseignements de l'expérience des industries électrique et gazière en Europe

Nuno Bento ()
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Nuno Bento: LEPII - Laboratoire d'Economie de la Production et de l'Intégration Internationale - UPMF - Université Pierre Mendès France - Grenoble 2 - CNRS - Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique

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Abstract: This paper aims to investigate the transition for a new energy system based on hydrogen in the European liberalized framework. After analyzing the literature on the hydrogen infrastructure needs in Europe, we size the real scope of the transition challenge. We take the theoretical framework of network economics to analyze early hydrogen infrastructureneeds. Therefore, several concepts are applied to hydrogen economics such as demand club effects, scale economies on large infrastructures, scope economies, and positive socioeconomical externalities. On the examples of the electric and natural gas industry formation in Europe, we argue for the public intervention in order to create conditions to reach more rapidly the critical size of the network and to release network externalities allowing for the market diffusion and, thus, an effective transition to the new energy system.

Keywords: Economics of regulation; network economics; technological change; energy economics; hydrogen; electricity; natural gas; électricité; gaz naturel; Economie de la réglementation; économie des réseaux; changement technologique; économie de l'énergie; hydrogène (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2007-11-07
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Published in Conférence de la Section Française de l'Association des Economistes de l'Energie, Nov 2007, Paris, France

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