Towards a Low Carbon Hydrogen Eco System in Ireland
A new report, “Towards a low-carbon hydrogen eco-system in Ireland”, co-authored by MaREI’s Dr Nathan Gray and Director Professor Jerry D. Murphy, UCC’s Abdelrahman Abualhussein and the ESB’s Paul Murphy, has now been published.
Summary of the Report:
The decarbonisation of the power sector is key to meeting ambitious climate mitigation efforts. This is widely expected to be delivered through a significant increase in variable renewable generation (wind and solar) as well as short-duration energy storage (batteries). To ensure a resilient energy transition, sources of dispatchable low-carbon electricity will also be needed to deliver power at times when renewable output is low. Beyond the electricity sector, there are other areas of the energy system that are much more challenging to decarbonise. These include shipping, aviation, and chemical production and will likely be decarbonised via low-carbon molecules rather than low-carbon electrons.
