Interactive webapp for techno-economic analysis of green value chains

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This interactive webapp can be used to reproduce figures from an accompanying article by the same authors that studies the renewables pull and its impact on industrial relocation for future global green value chains of energy-intensive basic materials. Some of the main assumptions, i.e. the electricity prices and the transport cost can be changed here when generating the figures.
We employ techno-economic assessments to compute the levelised cost of production for the studied green (i.e. low-carbon) value chains of steel, urea, and ethylene for cases of varying depth of relocation.

The results show that substantial relocation savings for the levelised cost of production can be anticipated for full relocation of the studied value chains. Moreover, by studying cases of varying depth of relocation, we can demonstrate that a large share of the energy-cost savings is associated with relocating electrolysis to more renewable-favourable locations, yet the high transportation cost of shipping-based hydrogen imports result in only minor overall relocation savings.

For more advanced changes and detailed information on the input data and methodology, we encourage users to inspect the article, its supplement, and the source code written in Python.

Identifier
DOI https://doi.org/10.5880/pik.2024.002
Related Identifier https://doi.org/10.1038/s41560-024-01492-z
Related Identifier https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.10640781
Related Identifier https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.10640888
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Provenance
Creator Verpoort, Philipp C. ORCID logo; Gast, Lukas ORCID logo; Hofmann, Anke ORCID logo; Ueckerdt, Falko (ORCID: 0000-0001-5585-030X)
Publisher GFZ Data Services
Contributor Verpoort, Philipp C.; Gast, Lukas; Hofmann, Anke; Ueckerdt, Falko
Publication Year 2024
Funding Reference Bundesministerium für Bildung und Forschung http://dx.doi.org/10.13039/501100002347 Crossref Funder ID 03SFK5A Kopernikus-Ariadne I; Bundesministerium für Bildung und Forschung http://dx.doi.org/10.13039/501100002347 Crossref Funder ID 03SFK5A0-2 Kopernikus-Ariadne II; Bundesministerium für Wirtschaft und Klimaschutz http://dx.doi.org/10.13039/100021130 Crossref Funder ID 01LP1928C INTEGRATE; Research Council of Norway 333151 HyValue; Bundesministerium für Wirtschaft und Klimaschutz http://dx.doi.org/10.13039/100021130 Crossref Funder ID DE64B88F-54CC-4CFB-B802-7CEC1AA2E542 Klimaschutzverträge
Rights CC BY 4.0; http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
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Contact Verpoort, Philipp C. (Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research, Germany)
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Resource Type InteractiveResource
Version 4.1.0
Discipline Earth System Research