Process-specific hydrogen potentials in North-Western Europe

The established methodology for estimating the presented process-specific hydrogen potentials is discussed in the paper "Future hydrogen demands from industry transition towards 2030 - a site-specific bottom-up assessment for North-Western Europe (2022)" by Neuwirth et al. at eceee conference 2022.

Please read the published paper (available after eceee2022-conference at 11th of June onwards) for details on the scenario assumptions and methodology.

Each dot represents an industrial site with the corresponding energy-intensive processes showing potential for switching towards hydrogen-based production technologies. The color of a dot denotes its subsector. The size of a dot represents the hydrogen potential by substituting current conventional production with hydrogen-based alternatives based on the plant-specific production output of 2018 on a logarithmic scale in TWh.

Please hover over the dots to see specific energy consumption (SEC) and total hydrogen potential per plant-specific process.

The shown infrastructure pipelines in the current version are planned hydrogen backbone pipelines in Germany and the Netherlands according to the European Hydrogen Backbone initiative. The H2-Backbone grid is not a result of our modeling.

This visualisation and the established dataset are still work in progress and will be improved further. The updated versions are available and ready for download on this webpage.

Contact for questions on methodology and data: Marius.Neuwirth@isi.fraunhofer.de

Current dataset version: V1