PUBLICATION "Determining priorities for hydrogen infrastructure projects in Europe based on total system costs" in the journal Advances in Applied Energy
Congratulations to Albin Kasser and Cyril Bourasseau from CEA I-Tésé, and Jens Schmugge and Hans Christian Gils from DLR-Institut für Vernetzte Energiesysteme on the publication of their article "Determining priorities for hydrogen infrastructure projects in Europe based on total system costs" in the journal Advances in Applied Energy!
As part of the CROSSHY Project, they have assessed the system benefits of hydrogen flexibility using REMix-Eur, a linear optimisation model of the European energy system.
They optimised a carbon-neutral 2050 target system and compare it with 24 scenarios in which hydrogen transfer and storage capacities are restricted relative to the cost-minimal case.
🔍Their results show that :
- for the chosen scenario, setup an inflexible hydrogen system increases annual system costs by 36 billion € or about 10 % compared to the cost-optimal case.
- Most of this penalty comes from restricting network rather than storage expansion.
- In the optimal case, Europe builds around 120 TWh of hydrogen cavern storage, with 57 % of it repurposed from previous natural gas utilisation.
- Electrolyser capacity ranges from around 330 GW to more than 500 GW across scenarios, and infrastructure enabling flexibility reduces the model-implied levelised cost of hydrogen from 64 € /MWh in the inflexible case to 51 € /MWh for the optimum.
Their findings suggest that early hydrogen planning should prioritise cross-border pipeline corridors and the retrofitting of existing storage sites, especially in the North Sea region.
👉 Read the article: https://bit.ly/4hgW0ZJ
👉 More info on the CROSSHY Project: I-Tésé - Crosshy