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Advances in Energy Systems
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Advances in Energy Systems

by Peter D. Lund, John A. Byrne, Reinhard Haas, Damian Flynn
April 2019
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
568 pages
27h 45m
English
Wiley
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16Use of Electric Vehicles or Hydrogen in the Danish Transport Sector in 2050?

Klaus Skytte, Amalia Pizarro and Kenneth B. Karlsson

Energy Economics and Regulation, Systems Analysis Division, Department of Management Engineering, Technical University of Denmark, Lyngby, Denmark

Denmark has an ambitious long‐term goal to reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from the transport sector with an overall climate target to be independent of fossil‐fuel consumption by 2050. We compare a likely scenario with two alternative ways to achieve the goal – either with a high percentage of electric vehicles (EV) or with a high percentage of hydrogen use for transportation.

The sustainable technology research and energy analysis (STREAM) model – an energy scenario simulating tool – is used to model the different scenarios and their integration with the electricity and heating systems.

The major findings are that an increased share of EV can reduce the socioeconomic cost of the energy system in 2050. However, electricity demand for H2 generation via electrolysis is more flexible than EV charging and the production can therefore, to a larger degree be used to out‐balance variable electricity surplus from a high share of wind energy in the power system, reducing the investments in backup capacity. Whether the hydrogen scenario (H2S) is more costly to implement than the EV scenario (EVS) mainly depends on the technological development – especially the improvement on the efficiency of the conversion ...

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