Shah: Hydrogen and ammonia create massive option value for renewable power
Jigar Shah · Hydrogen, meet salt cavern · Apr 28, 2022 · at 42:12
DOE Loan Programs Office director Jigar Shah argues against the idea that utility-scale renewable power prices will collapse to zero.
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“So I just think that people are so myopic in the way that they think about traditional solar and wind models, that they think that the price of this stuff is going to zero. But in fact, the option value has now just gone up substantially.”
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