Written by: Afshin Shakouri
Hydrogen Economy
A sustainable pathway for the global energy transition
The decarbonising is the focus of countries; the hydrogen industry helps towards the aim as it burns or combusts the remaining emits will be water.
However, the current infrastructures require to be adapted in order to give a viable alternative. Hydrogen can be generated from methane or electrolysing the water. The required power to electrolyse the water will be provided by the wind turbine excess electricity. Using this excess electricity gives an advantage of electricity storing issues. Although, at the moment this technology is tested on a smaller scale but shows great benefits in future. The electrolysing the water separated the hydrogen and oxygen; therefore, it is pure with no emission and toxic products.
In other words, hydrogen could apply as storing energy for future use and transfer energy efficiently.
This section introduces the Hydrogen Economy of the project and the Hydrogen market feasibility in the project location.
Figure 1: The schematic of Hydrogen Production & Consumption
- – This schematic represents a potential Offshore Wind & H2 pathway for achieving 100% decarbonisation of the energy sector.
- – Offshore wind is expected to be the largest source of renewable generation capacity by 2030.
- – Developers are driving research on Hydrogen because of price volatility of electricity.
- – The advantage of the project is to have a flexibility to produce something else rather than electricity, can be actually an enabler of building new windfarms.
- – Hydrogen production in windfarms can secure a more stable source of revenue.
The list below represent all the relevant sub-pages within the website.
Table 1: relevant sub pages list
Here you could find link to other websites working toward a low-carbon future:
European Hydrogen Association (EHA)
The International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA)
International Partnership for Hydrogen and Fuel Cells in the Economy