Mapping Local Green Hydrogen Cost-Potentials by a Multidisciplinary Approach
Abstract
For fast-tracking climate change response, green hydrogen is key for achieving greenhouse gas neutral energy systems. Especially Sub-Saharan Africa can benefit from it enabling an increased access to clean energy through utilizing its beneficial conditions for renewable energies. However, developing green hydrogen strategies for Sub-Saharan Africa requires highly detailed and consistent information ranging from technical, environmental, economic, and social dimensions, which is currently lacking in literature. Therefore, this paper provides a comprehensive novel approach embedding the required range of disciplines to analyze green hydrogen cost-potentials in Sub-Saharan Africa. This approach stretches from a dedicated land eligibility based on local preferences, a location specific renewable energy simulation, locally derived sustainable groundwater limitations under climate change, an optimization of local hydrogen energy systems, and a socio-economic indicator-based impact analysis. The capability of the approach is shown for case study regions in Sub-Saharan Africa highlighting the need for a unified, interdisciplinary approach.
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@article{arxiv.2407.07573,
title = {Mapping Local Green Hydrogen Cost-Potentials by a Multidisciplinary Approach},
author = {Shitab Ishmam and Heidi Heinrichs and Christoph Winkler and Bagher Bayat and Amin Lahnaoui and Solomon Agbo and Edgar Ubaldo Pena Sanchez and David Franzmann and Nathan Ojieabu and Celine Koerner and Youpele Micheal and Bamidele Oloruntoba and Carsten Montzka and Harry Vereecken and Harrie-Jan Hendricks-Franssen and Jeerawan Brendt and Simon Brauner and Wilhelm Kuckshinrichs and Sandra Venghaus and Daouda Kone and Bruno Korgo and Kehinde Ogunjobi and Vasco Chiteculo and Jane Olwoch and Zachary Getenga and Jochen Linßen and Detlef Stolten},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2407.07573},
year = {2024}
}