Published September 29, 2022
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Breaking the hard-to-abate bottleneck in China's path to carbon neutrality with clean hydrogen
- 1. Harvard–China Project on Energy, Economy and Environment, Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USA
- 2. Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USA
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Countries such as China are facing a bottleneck in their paths to carbon neutrality: abating emissions in heavy industries and heavy-duty transport. There are few in-depth studies of the prospective role for clean hydrogen in these ‘hard-to-abate’ (HTA) sectors. Here we carry out an integrated dynamic least-cost modelling analysis. Results show that, first, clean hydrogen can be both a major energy carrier and feedstock that can significantly reduce carbon emissions of heavy industry.
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Aside from "PARIS REINFORCE" (Grant No. 820846), the authors also gratefully acknowledge the financial support from the Energy Foundation Projects 'Advanced Technologies for Decarbonization of China's Iron and Steel Sector' (grant number 2206-33971) and 'Technology Systems for Carbon Neutrality' (grant number G-2008-32164).
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