{"id":78637,"date":"2020-09-14T07:35:36","date_gmt":"2020-09-14T05:35:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/?p=78637"},"modified":"2020-09-10T08:33:07","modified_gmt":"2020-09-10T06:33:07","slug":"german-benelux-hydrogen-demand-could-rise-five-fold-to-2050-study","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/german-benelux-hydrogen-demand-could-rise-five-fold-to-2050-study\/","title":{"rendered":"German, Benelux hydrogen demand could rise five-fold to 2050: study"},"content":{"rendered":"

Demand for hydrogen fuel in Germany and the Benelux countries could increase five-fold by 2050 to 500 terawatt hours (TWh) a year, depending on future trends in the electrification of heat and transport, researchers said on Thursday.<\/p>\n

The region currently uses 95 TWh of fossil fuels-based hydrogen, mainly from natural gas and for heavy industry, which green hydrogen could replace under European decarbonisation strategies, according to Aurora Energy Research.<\/p>\n

It has released a study<\/a> on the potential for hydrogen use in the energy systems of Germany, the Netherlands, Belgium and Luxembourg.<\/p>\n

Green hydrogen is derived via electrolysis in a process that passes electricity from sources like wind and sunshine through water, but this is currently twice as expensive as conventional processes, Aurora figures showed.<\/p>\n

Germany and the wider European Union are currently shaping policies to make the bloc carbon-neutral by the middle of the century, sticking with expanding renewable installations to replace thermal electricity, but must reconcile competing use of energy sources in other sectors.<\/p>\n

Aurora said that if transport and heat opted to use electricity directly – by running cars on power and using electrified pumps for heating purposes – then future hydrogen output could mainly be used to replace fossil fuels in the manufacturing processes of steel, chemicals or cement.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Demand for hydrogen fuel in Germany and the Benelux countries could increase five-fold by 2050 to 500 terawatt hours (TWh) a year, depending on future trends in the electrification of heat and transport, researchers said on Thursday. The region currently uses 95 TWh of fossil fuels-based hydrogen, mainly from natural gas and for heavy industry, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","nova_meta_subtitle":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5572],"tags":[5838,10630,15938],"supplier":[17440],"class_list":["post-78637","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bio-based","tag-bioeconomy","tag-hydrogen","tag-powertox","supplier-aurora-energy-research"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78637","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/59"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=78637"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78637\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=78637"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=78637"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=78637"},{"taxonomy":"supplier","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/supplier?post=78637"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}