수소 경제에서 원자력의 역할 (The Role of Nuclear Power in the Hydrogen Economy)
본 보고서는 수소 가치 사슬 전반에 걸쳐 원자력으로 생산된 수소의 비용과 경쟁력에 대한 평가를 제공하고 수소 생산이 통합 전기 및 에너지 시스템의 전체 비용에 미치는 영향에 대해 설명하고 있습니다.
The great majority of scenarios mapping out the road towards net zero emissions include a strong rise in the supply, demand and use of hydrogen by 2050. Although the potential contribution that hydrogen could make to decarbonising the energy sector, as an energy carrier or as a commodity, has been known for decades, the scale and ambition of current initiatives by both public and private actors have no precedent. For instance, the International Energy Agency (IEA) estimates in its 2021 report Net-zero Pathways that worldwide hydrogen consumption will rise from around 90 Mt in 2020, the vast majority of which is for industrial applications, to more than 500 Mt by 2050, with many new usages across the industrial, transport, power and heating sectors (IEA, 2021a). However, realising this long-term expansion in the hydrogen economy requires ambitious policy initiatives to support hydrogen deployment and to engage stakeholders in the short term. In this context, it is essential to identify the priorities and commit new resources to actions that, if taken today, will put the hydrogen economy on a path to fully contributing to reaching net zero targets.