Sep 9 2022Reviewed by Mila Perera
Green hydrogen from renewable electricity and synthetic e-fuels are exclusively valuable for realizing climate neutrality. They can substitute fossil fuels in long-distance conveyance or industry where direct electrification is not practical.
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However, even if the manufacturing capacities increase as rapidly as the growth-rate leaders, solar and wind power, green hydrogen supply is still scarce in the short-term and undetermined in the long term, as a new study reported in the journal Nature Energy reveals.
Green hydrogen would probably supply below 1% of total energy worldwide by 2035, while the European Union (EU) might reach the 1% mark slightly earlier by around 2030. Notably, the EU’s 2030 scheme to deliver 10 million tons of green hydrogen with domestic capacity will be unattainable unless…