Business and financing models for infrastructure when electrifying heavy duty road transports.

By the appointment of the Swedish Energy Agency, Energimyndigheten.

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Summary

Sweden has a goal to have a fossil free transport system 2030. To be successful in reaching that goal, Sweden has to find innovative solutions. Electric road system (ERS) is one example of an innovative but realistic solution. ERS will reduce emissions and has a potential to be self-supportive within heavy duty road transports. Such systems could be interesting for new investment like Public Private Partnership (PPP). This study uses business models as tools to look deeper into PPP arrangements for ERS in heavy duty transportation.

This study has looked into

• Different business models for ERS
• Description of business model scenarios, qualitatively and quantitatively
• Visualization of a model used for sensitivity analysis
• Stakeholder knowledge and points of views regarding ERS
• Report from a visit to the ERS demo project in Los Angeles, USA

Five models are presented, from fully privately owned to fully publicly owned ERS cases

1. All private, fee-based
2. Private concession, fee-based
3. Joint venture between public and private investors, fee-based
4. Publicly owned fee-based infrastructure
5. Publicly owned, tax paid infrastructure