Print Email Facebook Twitter Unlocking the potential of the Dutch hydrogen economy Title Unlocking the potential of the Dutch hydrogen economy Author van Haersma Buma, Bernhard (TU Delft Technology, Policy and Management) Contributor Stikkelman, R.M. (mentor) Auping, Willem L. (mentor) Ibarra Gonzalez, P. (mentor) Degree granting institution Delft University of Technology Programme Engineering and Policy Analysis Date 2023-06-08 Abstract The Netherlands is looking to decarbonize its economy and replace natural gas from Groningen and Russia with different energy carriers. Dutch government has been mainly stimulating renewable electricity production, CO2 capture and storage (CCS) and sustainable heat generation (RVO, 2022) to address these challenges. While these technologies are an indispensable part of CO2 reduction strategies, for full decarbonization of the economy more advanced technologies (Hammingh et al., 2022), new materials, mitigation solutions and negative emission technologies are required (Yang et al., 2022). To both reach full climate neutrality, and to replace Russian gas with green alternative, a renewable molecule is vital. The main alternative for fossils that is currently deployed is green electricity. Green electricity is an effective way to replace fossil fuels, but not all industries can replace their liquid or gaseous fuels with electricity. For those industries the Netherlands envisions green hydrogen to be the sustainable alternative. In their climate agreement the Dutch government has set the goal to have 3-4 GW of green hydrogen production via electrolysis installed in 2030. Currently, this goal seems difficult to achieve as the green hydrogen industry struggles to kick off. This is in large due to the fact that there is a gap in literature and policies between research projects and full scale green hydrogen production. Policies are needed to accumulate economies of scale to reach a price level at which green hydrogen is competitive with fossil alternatives or other forms of low-carbon hydrogen. The goal of this research is to identify a robust policy strategy that will enable the Dutch industry and government to reach the goals for hydrogen production... Subject HydrogensustainabilityIndustry To reference this document use: http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:2b9aab31-d197-4ed0-ba3a-d13b4d7c78e9 Part of collection Student theses Document type master thesis Rights © 2023 Bernhard van Haersma Buma Files PDF Thesis_BvHB.pdf 3.34 MB Close viewer /islandora/object/uuid:2b9aab31-d197-4ed0-ba3a-d13b4d7c78e9/datastream/OBJ/view