Climate Impacts of a hydrogen economy: The pathway to knowledge- HYway

The HYway project aims to be the most comprehensive study on the environmental effects of large-scale hydrogen usage. Through a series of interconnected work packages and coordinated efforts, HYway aims to provide comprehensive insights into the hydrogen economy’s environmental implications and foster effective communication between scientific and industrial stakeholders. The findings will provide policymakers with critical information for the transition to a low-carbon economy.

Main Objectives of HYway:

  1. Hydrogen budget: Refinement of the current and pre-industrial hydrogen budget and development of a strategy to improve monitoring of hydrogen concentrations in Europe.
  2. Impacts of hydrogen emissions: Quantify the impact of hydrogen on atmospheric composition and radiative forcing by methane, stratospheric water, ozone and aerosols.
  3. Soil uptake and leakage: Improving the understanding of soil uptake of hydrogen and assessing leakage rates.
  4. Emission inventories: Development of detailed inventories for current hydrogen emissions.
  5. Future hydrogen economy: Creation of realistic scenarios for a future hydrogen economy and assessment of climate and environmental impacts.

Funding: €3,949,193.75

Start Date: 1 September, 2024

End date: 31 August, 2028

Partners:
– CICERO Senter for klimaforskning (CICERO, Norway) – Coordinator
– Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS, France)
– Commissariat à l’Energie Atomique (CEA, France)
– Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt (DLR, Germany)
– International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA, Austria)
– Koninklijk Nederlands Meteorologisch Instituut (KNMI, Netherlands)
– Lunds Universitet (ULUND, Sweden)
– Meteorologisk Institutt (METNO, Norway)
– The Cyprus Institute (CYI, Cyprus)

Funded by the European Union under grant agreement No.101137582.