Philipp C. Verpoort

Gunnar Luderer @gunnarenergyclima.bsky.social [ View ] May 14, 2024 at 12:15 UTC

#JobOpportunity @pik-potsdam.bsky.social: We are looking for a postdoc or research analyst working with us on energy systems modeling of decarbonization pathways for the transport system 0cn.de/PIKtransport....

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Philipp C. Verpoort @philippverpoort.bsky.social [ View ] Apr 24, 2024 at 09:40 UTC

Special thanks to my team lead, @falkoueckerdt.bsky.social, who has been supervising this work. Also many thanks to coauthors Lukas Gast and Anke Hofmann!

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Philipp C. Verpoort @philippverpoort.bsky.social [ View ] Apr 24, 2024 at 09:40 UTC

We published an interactive webapp alongside the paper, which allows users to reproduce figures under modified assumptions:
interactive.pik-potsdam.de/green-value-...

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Philipp C. Verpoort @philippverpoort.bsky.social [ View ] Apr 24, 2024 at 09:39 UTC

But there are also risks: macroeconomic losses, false reliance on future imports, and import dependencies for importing countries, and resource shuffling and neocolonial structures for exporting countries.

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Philipp C. Verpoort @philippverpoort.bsky.social [ View ] Apr 24, 2024 at 09:39 UTC

... exporters could reap the benefits of industrialisation; and the net-zero transition could be accelerated through an efficient use of global renewables potentials and global spill-over effects for low-emissions industrial technologies.

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Philipp C. Verpoort @philippverpoort.bsky.social [ View ] Apr 24, 2024 at 09:38 UTC

Ultimately, we find that relocating only the first step of industrial production in H₂-based green value chains to favourable regions for renewables could be a win-win-win scenario: importers could lower transformation cost, energy prices, and downstream production cost; ...

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Philipp C. Verpoort @philippverpoort.bsky.social [ View ] Apr 24, 2024 at 09:38 UTC

Of course renewable energy isn’t the only relevant locational factor for energy-intensive industries. We list other factors that may become important and organise these in three layers: private companies, policy-makers, and society.

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Philipp C. Verpoort @philippverpoort.bsky.social [ View ] Apr 24, 2024 at 09:37 UTC

We study the role of the renewables pull in emerging green value chains in the steel and chemical sectors that rely on green H₂, where multiple options for trade are possible. This means that there can be a varying “depth” of relocation.

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Philipp C. Verpoort @philippverpoort.bsky.social [ View ] Apr 24, 2024 at 09:37 UTC

The incentive to relocate production to regions with ample sun, wind, and space is called the “renewables pull” (Samadi et al, Wuppertal). If this incentive effectively induces such relocation, we refer to it as “green relocation”.

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Philipp C. Verpoort @philippverpoort.bsky.social [ View ] Apr 24, 2024 at 09:37 UTC

As the world transitions to net-zero emissions, the cost and availability of renewable electricity and green H₂ will increasingly become key locational factors for energy-intensive industries, especially for steel and chemicals. This could shift production and trade patterns.

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Philipp C. Verpoort @philippverpoort.bsky.social [ View ] Apr 24, 2024 at 09:37 UTC

• Relocating only first industrial proc step in H₂-based value chains to renewable-rich regions could be a win-win-win scenario — but also entails risks (macroeconomic losses, false reliance on future imports, import dependencies, resource shuffling, neocolonial structures)

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Philipp C. Verpoort @philippverpoort.bsky.social [ View ] Apr 24, 2024 at 09:37 UTC

• Importing green H₂ via ship will be a costly option for conserving existing production locations • Importing intermediate products (DRI, NH₃, MeOH) could be a “sweet-spot” of relocation: reducing cost effectively while conserving value chains in renewable-scarce countries

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Philipp C. Verpoort @philippverpoort.bsky.social [ View ] Apr 24, 2024 at 09:35 UTC

Key insights: • Substantial cost-savings of 18% for low-carbon steel and up to 38% for low-carbon chemicals when relocating production away from renewables-scarce (eg Germany, Japan, S.Korea) and towards renewable-rich regions (eg Australia, Namibia, Chile).

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Philipp C. Verpoort @philippverpoort.bsky.social [ View ] Apr 24, 2024 at 09:34 UTC

📄💡 New paper published in Nature Energy estimating the “renewables pull” for green value chains of basic materials (steel & chemicals)!

Read online (open access): nature.com/articles/s41560-024-01492-z

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Philipp C. Verpoort @philippverpoort.bsky.social [ View ] Mar 03, 2024 at 21:32 UTC

Vor Kurzem habe ich mit Timo Rieg im ?Macht:Los! Podcast über die Rolle von Quoten in der zufälligen Auswahl von Menschen für Bürgerräte und ähnliche Beteiligungsverfahren geredet. Vielen Dank für das spannende Gespräch und die interessanten Fragen!

Hier anhören:
www.machtlos.net/27-mit-phili...

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Philipp C. Verpoort @philippverpoort.bsky.social [ View ] Jan 11, 2024 at 14:54 UTC

We just published a paper on the cost competitiveness of blue and green #hydrogen!

In brief: blue H₂ may compete and bridge the green supply gap — but only if (a) natural gas is cheap (~15€/MWh) and (b) blue H₂ has high capture rates (>90% of CO₂) and low CH₄ leakage (<1%).

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