Hydrogen in the European energy transition: Where will it come from?

Harkema, Daan (2022) Hydrogen in the European energy transition: Where will it come from? Bachelor's Thesis, Applied Physics.

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Abstract

Putting a hold on climate change will be one of the biggest challenges of the next couple of decades. Right now we are at the start of a very big energy transition from fossil to renewable energy. Hydrogen will play a crucial role in this transition. Hydrogen can be used as an energy carrier, to store or transport energy and hydrogen can be used in hard to decarbonize sectors that cannot be decarbonized using green electrical power. Ways have to be sought after to produce hydrogen in big quantities without CO$_2$ emissions. This thesis investigates how the EU is going to realize this hydrogen production (10 million tonnes in 2024 and 40 million tonnes in 2030) and how the EU will ensure that hydrogen is able to compete with fossil fuels, since to this day fossil fuels are much cheaper. This literature review is executed by reviewing governmental documents, publications of the European Commission and scientific literature. Hydrogen will be produced using electrolysis powered by renewable energy. Electrolysers will be built and renewable energy production will be scaled up rapidly to make up for the increase in demand. Collaborations are formed between multidisciplinary companies like The Green Hydrogen Alliance and the HyDeal Ambitions. To support this further many subsidizing plans have been announced. Despite that, clear and concrete implementation of the plans seem to be lacking. This is partly because many concrete actions are still under consideration of the European Comm

Item Type:	Thesis (Bachelor's Thesis)
Supervisor name:	Miocic, J.M. and Palasantzas, G.
Degree programme:	Applied Physics
Thesis type:	Bachelor's Thesis
Language:	English
Date Deposited:	11 Jul 2022 09:47
Last Modified:	09 Apr 2024 09:36
URI:	https://fse.studenttheses.ub.rug.nl/id/eprint/27745

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