Wilde, Arjan de (2021) Mapping the comparative advantages of potential green and blue hydrogen regions in Europe. Master thesis.
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Abstract
Hydrogen can be used as an energy carrier for renewable energy, which makes it a useful tool for reducing global CO2 emissions. The Northern Netherlands is one of the European regions that wants to invest heavily into green and blue hydrogen technology. In this master thesis the Northern Netherlands is compared with other European regions that have the same ambition. This is done to evaluate whether the Northern Netherlands is in a good position for establishing a sustainable hydrogen cluster. I have designed a scoreboard to compare eight hydrogen regions on the following five dimensions: natural resources, human capital, transportation & infrastructure, industrial activity and innovation. From this analysis it became clear that the Northern Netherlands is one of the middle performing regions. It excels in the natural resources dimension, due to its high potential for offshore wind. It also has a high score on transportation & infrastructure, because of its dense gas pipeline network and the availability of salt caverns for H2 or CO2 storage. One weakness of the Northern Netherlands is its relatively low score on innovation. The Northern Netherlands could especially face tough competition from North Germany and the Schelde-Delta region, because these two regions had good scores across all the dimensions.
| Item Type: | Thesis (Master) |
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| Degree programme: | Economic Geography |
| Supervisor: | Dijk, J. van |
| Date Deposited: | 20 Jul 2021 10:27 |
| Last Modified: | 20 Jul 2021 10:27 |
| URI: | https://frw.studenttheses.ub.rug.nl/id/eprint/3534 |
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