Planning resilient hydrogen supply chains under disruption risk

Falko Ueckerdt; Felix M\"usgens; Philipp C. Verpoort; Silvian M. Radke

arxiv: 2606.09190 · v1 · pith:RVNU7GC6new · submitted 2026-06-08 · 💰 econ.GN · math.OC· q-fin.EC

Planning resilient hydrogen supply chains under disruption risk

Silvian M. Radke , Philipp C. Verpoort , Falko Ueckerdt , Felix M\"usgens This is my paper

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keywords hydrogen supply chainsdisruption riskstochastic optimisationEU energy importsinfrastructure planningresilience strategieswelfare lossesenergy security

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The pith

Risk-aware planning for EU hydrogen imports avoids 12% welfare losses from supply disruptions.

A machine-rendered reading of the paper's core claim, the machinery that carries it, and where it could break.

The paper applies a stochastic optimisation model to EU hydrogen import infrastructure and compares planning that ignores disruption risks against planning that anticipates them. Ignoring risks produces networks that incur large welfare losses when disruptions happen, while risk-aware planning uses higher upfront spending on diversified routes and extra capacity to reach welfare levels nearly as high as a perfect no-disruption case. The resulting infrastructure differs markedly, with more pipelines, shipping terminals, and internal European transport links. Two main resilience tactics appear: spreading imports across many corridors and deliberately building extra capacity. The work shows how risk considerations can avoid the concentrated vulnerabilities that characterise today's fossil fuel supply chains.

Core claim

Using a stochastic optimisation model of EU hydrogen imports, naive infrastructure planning that neglects supply disruption risks results in welfare losses of 12 percent (24 billion euros) compared to risk-aware planning. The latter requires higher initial investments but achieves welfare levels close to an idealised system without disruptions through a different configuration focused on diversification across import corridors and strategic over-investment in transport capacity, pipelines, and shipping terminals.

What carries the argument

Stochastic optimisation model that incorporates disruption probabilities and impact parameters to select hydrogen import infrastructure under risk.

If this is right

Higher upfront infrastructure spending produces networks that maintain near-ideal welfare when disruptions occur.
Diversification across multiple import corridors reduces exposure to single-point failures.
Strategic over-investment increases intra-European transport capacity and broadens the set of import pipelines.
Investments shift toward costly shipping terminals for hydrogen carriers.
Incorporating supply risk prevents the structural vulnerabilities observed in fossil fuel systems.

Where Pith is reading between the lines

These are editorial extensions of the paper, not claims the author makes directly.

The same modelling approach could be applied to other emerging fuel chains such as ammonia or synthetic methane imports.
Policy makers in regions outside the EU might adapt the framework when designing their own green fuel corridors.
If real disruption frequencies turn out lower than modelled, the extra investment could still provide option value for future demand growth.
Updating the model with post-2022 energy crisis data would test whether the quantified welfare gap holds under observed import shocks.

Load-bearing premise

The disruption probabilities and impact parameters in the model accurately represent real-world risks for hydrogen imports.

What would settle it

A direct comparison of realised welfare or cost outcomes during actual supply disruptions between a hydrogen network built under naive planning and one built under risk-aware planning.

read the original abstract

Despite growing concerns over energy security, infrastructure planning and modelling for emerging green fuel supply chains often neglect risks from supply disruptions. Using a stochastic optimisation model of EU hydrogen imports, we show that 'naive' infrastructure planning results in welfare losses of 12 % (24 billion EUR) compared to risk-aware planning that anticipates supply disruptions. Despite requiring higher upfront investments, anticipatory planning achieves welfare levels close to those of an idealised system without disruptions, but entails a markedly different infrastructure configuration. Two complementary resilience strategies emerge: diversification across import corridors and strategic over-investment. This leads to increased intra-European transport capacity, a broader set of import pipelines, and investments in costly shipping terminals for hydrogen carriers. Our results show that incorporating supply risk considerations into infrastructure planning helps prevent the structural vulnerabilities seen in fossil fuel systems when designing future hydrogen supply chains.

Editorial analysis

A structured set of objections, weighed in public.

Desk editor's note, referee report, simulated authors' rebuttal, and a circularity audit. Tearing a paper down is the easy half of reading it; the pith above is the substance, this is the friction.

Desk Editor's Note private letter to a colleague

The paper runs a stochastic optimization on EU hydrogen imports and claims 12% welfare loss from ignoring disruptions, but the disruption inputs lack any visible grounding.

read the letter

The core finding is that planning without disruption risk produces 12% lower welfare (24 bn EUR) than a model that anticipates them, and that the risk-aware version shifts the buildout toward more corridors, intra-EU links, and shipping terminals while still reaching near-ideal welfare.

The work applies a standard stochastic-optimization setup to hydrogen import planning and makes the infrastructure differences explicit. That is the main concrete output: two distinct network configurations and the size of the welfare gap between them.

The obvious limitation is the one the stress-test note flags. The abstract states that the model 'anticipates supply disruptions' but supplies no data sources, historical calibration, expert elicitation, or sensitivity ranges for the probabilities and impact sizes. If those parameters are chosen for illustration rather than matched to observable import-risk statistics, the 12% figure and the derived recommendations become model-dependent rather than robust policy results.

No equations, validation steps, or error analysis appear in the provided text, so the central claim cannot be checked on its own terms. The approach itself looks like ordinary stochastic programming with external scenarios, so there is no obvious circularity or invented entities.

This is for readers who already work on hydrogen supply-chain models or European energy-security studies and want to see how adding disruption risk changes the optimal network. It is not yet ready for direct policy use.

I would send it to peer review. The topic is timely, the modeling framework is standard, and referees can press on the parameter grounding and data sources. A revised version with transparent inputs and checks would be usable.

Referee Report

2 major / 1 minor

Summary. The manuscript develops a stochastic optimisation model of EU hydrogen imports that incorporates supply disruption risks. It claims that 'naive' planning ignoring these risks produces 12% (24 billion EUR) welfare losses relative to risk-aware planning, which achieves near-ideal welfare levels via diversification across import corridors, increased intra-European transport capacity, broader pipeline sets, and investments in shipping terminals for hydrogen carriers.

Significance. If the disruption probabilities and severity parameters can be shown to be empirically grounded, the result would be significant for energy-security policy: it quantifies the cost of neglecting risk in emerging green-fuel chains and identifies concrete resilience strategies (diversification plus strategic over-investment) that could prevent fossil-fuel-style vulnerabilities.

major comments (2)

[Model section] Model section (stochastic formulation): the disruption probabilities and impact parameters that drive the 12% welfare-loss figure and the derived infrastructure recommendations are presented without any data sources, historical calibration, elicitation method, or external validation; this is load-bearing for the central quantitative claim.
[Results section] Results section (welfare comparison): no sensitivity ranges, robustness checks, or error analysis are reported for the key risk parameters, so it is impossible to determine whether the 24 billion EUR loss and the 'near-ideal' welfare outcome are robust or artefacts of particular parameter choices.

minor comments (1)

The abstract states quantitative results but supplies no model equations, validation steps, or data sources; adding a short clause on the modelling approach would improve readability.

Simulated Author's Rebuttal

2 responses · 0 unresolved

Thank you for the opportunity to respond to the referee's comments. We address each major comment in turn and outline the revisions we will make to the manuscript.

read point-by-point responses

Referee: [Model section] Model section (stochastic formulation): the disruption probabilities and impact parameters that drive the 12% welfare-loss figure and the derived infrastructure recommendations are presented without any data sources, historical calibration, elicitation method, or external validation; this is load-bearing for the central quantitative claim.

Authors: We agree that the manuscript would benefit from explicit documentation of the parameter sources. In the revised version, we will expand the Model section to include a new subsection detailing the derivation of disruption probabilities and impact parameters, drawing on historical energy disruption data from sources such as the International Energy Agency and relevant academic literature on supply chain risks. This will include the elicitation method used and references for validation. revision: yes
Referee: [Results section] Results section (welfare comparison): no sensitivity ranges, robustness checks, or error analysis are reported for the key risk parameters, so it is impossible to determine whether the 24 billion EUR loss and the 'near-ideal' welfare outcome are robust or artefacts of particular parameter choices.

Authors: We acknowledge the absence of sensitivity analysis in the current results section. To address this, we will add a new subsection in the Results section presenting sensitivity ranges for the key risk parameters, including variations in disruption probabilities and severities. This will include robustness checks across different parameter sets and an analysis of how these affect the welfare loss estimates and infrastructure recommendations. revision: yes

Circularity Check

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No significant circularity; derivation self-contained

full rationale

The paper deploys a standard stochastic optimisation model whose outputs (welfare losses, infrastructure configurations) are generated from external disruption scenarios treated as inputs. No quoted equations, self-citations, or fitted parameters reduce the headline claims to definitions or prior author work by construction. The 12 % / 24 bn EUR result is an optimisation outcome under stated assumptions, not a renaming or self-referential prediction. This is the normal non-circular case for an applied optimisation study.

Axiom & Free-Parameter Ledger

0 free parameters · 0 axioms · 0 invented entities

Abstract-only review; no details available on model parameters, assumptions, or entities. Free parameters, axioms, and invented entities cannot be identified.

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