“…Our focus in this paper is on real options, in particular energy real options. Applications include process innovations (Khansa and Liginlal 2009), manufacturing flexibility (Triantis andHodder 1990, Fontes 2008), capital budgeting (Gamba 2003), renewable energy investments (Boomsma et al 2012), and commodity and energy acquisition, disposal, processing, production, storage, and swing assets (Barbieri and Garman 1996, Smith and McCardle 1998, 1999, Maragos 2002, Jaillet et al 2004, Thompson et al 2004, Brandão et al 2005, Smith 2005, Boogert and De Jong 2008, 2011/12, Cortazar et al 2008, Hahn and Dyer 2008, 2011, Carmona and Ludkovski 2010, Enders et al 2010, Lai et al 2010, Secomandi 2010, Wang and Dyer 2010, Adkins and Paxson 2011, Devalkar et al 2011, Felix and Weber 2012, Chandramouli and Haugh 2012, Thompson 2012, Wu et al 2012, Arvesen et al 2013, Denault et al 2013, Mazières and Boogert 2013, Secomandi and Seppi 2014, Chapters 5-7, Bäuerle and Riess 2015, Gyurkó et al 2015, Nadarajah et al 2015.…”