Low carbon infrastructure investment: extending business models for sustainability
Low carbon infrastructure investment: extending business models for sustainability
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低碳基础设施投资：扩展可持续发展的商业模式
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发表时间：
2015
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通讯作者：
K. Roelich
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作者：
T. Foxon;C. Bale;Jonathan Busch;Ruth E. Bush;S. Hall;K. Roelich
基础设施投资被认为是经济繁荣的关键推动因素，但它对应对社会和环境挑战也很重要，包括减缓气候变化和解决燃料贫困问题。《英国政府投资英国未来战略》认为，需要对“有弹性、成本效益和可持续的能源供应”进行大量投资，以应对这些挑战。然而，目前评估基础设施投资成本和效益的方法，以及随后设计交付这一投资所需的商业模式，往往优先考虑部分经济收益，而不是社会和环境目标。本文扩展了商业模式画布方法，以允许设计商业模式和评估方法，可以将社会和环境价值流和主张以及经济价值纳入其中，以促进真正可持续的基础设施投资。它通过两个案例研究的智能电网的发展，在英国的电力分配和本地供热网络证明了这种扩展的有用性。智能电网对于维持电力系统的安全性和可靠性至关重要，同时在配电网络中纳入越来越多的低碳发电。区域供热网络可以促进低碳热量的高效供应。然而，这两项工作都需要大量投资，需要公共、私营和监管行为体之间的协调，并将为这些行为体带来一系列经济、社会和环境成本和效益。借鉴经验采访当地参与智能电网和热力网络的发展，以及最近的工作估值和商业模式画布分析，本文挑战的传统观点的商业模式，只有创造一种形式的价值。核算多种类型的价值有助于确定更有可能实现基础设施转型的环境和社会目标的商业模式，并为新的行为者打开大门。最后，本文介绍了一种方法，以复杂的系统建模的基础设施投资决策，以考虑到一系列的演员和这些演员的动机的多样性。
Investment in infrastructure is recognized as a key enabler of economic prosperity, but it is also important for addressing social and environmental challenges, including climate change mitigation and addressing fuel poverty. The UK Government Strategy Investing in Britain’s Future argues that significant investment in “resilient, cost effective and sustainable energy supplies” is needed to meet these challenges. However, current methods of assessing the costs and benefits of infrastructure investment, and the subsequent design of business models needed to deliver this investment, often prioritise partial economic gains over social and environmental objectives. This paper extends the business model canvas approach to allow designing business models and evaluation methods that can incorporate social and environmental value streams and propositions as well as economic values in order to facilitate genuinely sustainable infrastructure investment. It demonstrates the usefulness of this extension through two case studies of the development of smart grids for electricity distribution and local heat delivery networks in the UK. Smart grids are essential for maintaining the security and reliability of electricity systems whilst incorporating increasing amounts of low carbon generation in distribution networks. District heat networks can facilitate the efficient supply of low carbon heat. However, both will require significant levels of investment, co-ordination between public, private and regulatory actors, and will deliver a range of economic, social and environmental costs and benefits to these actors. Drawing on empirical interviews with local actors involved in smart grid and heat network developments, and recent work on valuation and business model canvas analysis, the paper challenges the traditional view of a business model as only creating one form of value. Accounting for multiple types of value helps to identify business models that are more likely to achieve the environmental and social goals of infrastructure transformation and opens the door for new actors. Finally, the paper introduces an approach to complex systems modelling of infrastructure investment decisions to take into account the range of actors and the diversity of motivations of these actors.
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9
作者：
M. Hannon;T. Foxon;W. Gale
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M. Hannon;T. Foxon;W. Gale
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9
作者：
Bale C
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Bale C
影响因子：
11.2
作者：
Bale, Catherine S. E.;Varga, Liz;Foxon, Timothy J.
通讯作者：
Foxon, Timothy J.
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发表时间：
2014
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作者：
Bale C
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Bale C