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Title Green And Sustainable Hydrogen In Emerging European Smart Energy Framework
ID_Doc 64504
Authors Jansons, L; Zemite, L; Zeltins, N; Geipele, I; Backurs, A
Title Green And Sustainable Hydrogen In Emerging European Smart Energy Framework
Year 2023
Published Latvian Journal Of Physics And Technical Sciences, 60, 1
DOI 10.2478/lpts-2023-0003
Abstract Green and sustainable hydrogen has a major role in moving towards decarbonization of energy, providing viable solutions in all most challenging sectors of the national economies. It would penetrate practically all sectors of economic activity, such as long-haul transport, steel and chemical industries, power generation and energy storage. Green and sustainable hydrogen cost competitiveness is also closely linked to developments of large-scale renewable energy sources (in case of green hydrogen; hereinafter - RES) and further commercialization of carbon dioxide (in case of sustainable hydrogen produced from natural gas; hereinafter - CO2) capture and storage (hereinafter - CCS) technologies.In the European Union (hereinafter - EU), sustainable and especially green hydrogen is gaining strong political and business momentum, emerging as one of major components in governments' net zero plans within the European Green Deal and beyond. Being extremely versatile both in production and consumption sides, it is light, storable, has high energy content per unit mass and can be readily produced at an industrial scale. The key challenge comes from the fact that hydrogen is the lightest known chemical element and so has a low energy density per unit of volume, making some forms of long-distance transportation and storage complex and costly.In this paper, green and sustainable hydrogen is reviewed as a vital part of emerging European smart energy framework, which could contribute significantly to economy decarbonization agenda of the EU and Latvia in both in short- and mid-term perspective.
Author Keywords Decarbonization; green hydrogen; smart energy systems; sustainable hydrogen
Index Keywords Index Keywords
Document Type Other
Open Access Open Access
Source Emerging Sources Citation Index (ESCI)
EID WOS:000944009500003
WoS Category Physics, Applied
Research Area Physics
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