Hydrogen Integration for Accelerated Energy Transitions Hub (HI-ACT)

氢和替代液体燃料(一半)通过在整个能源系统中提供连通性和灵活性，在净零过渡中发挥重要作用。尽管氢气研究领域在物理科学和工程领域都取得了进展，但在将氢气和替代液体燃料技术以及能源服务推广到英国的地方和国家整个系统基础设施方面，仍然存在重大障碍。这些障碍包括技术障碍、组织障碍、监管和社会障碍以及财务障碍。因此，目前的氢气生产、运输、储存、转化和使用水平与到2050年实现净零的估计需求之间存在巨大差距。为了解决这一问题，我们提议的研究方案有四个相互关联的工作包。WP1将制定前瞻性的半技术路线图。我们将评估供应链的可用性和安全性。选定具有代表性的一半用例将用于识别和量化整个系统分析中的任何机会、风险和依赖关系。我们还将制定半系统集成的总体路线图，以便为技术进步、工业和商业发展以及政策制定和社会干预提供信息。WP2将改进一半的定性，并探索关于能源过渡的紧迫新视角，包括与确保复原力和安全同时实现净零有关的视角。我们将把实际激励/行为带来的能源转型与广泛使用的优化模型预测的能源转型进行对比。WP提供了HI-ACT集线器的整个系统建模引擎，以及各种最先进的工具来探索半集成。WP 3将通过创建网络物理架构(CPA)，探索与整个系统规划和业务决策支持有关的数据和信息的重要耦合。这将从数据和信息的角度对当前和未来的机会和风险产生新的学习，这将导致加速整合氢技术的整个系统本体。工作组4审议了未来能源系统的备选方案，其中一半是从多个角度考虑的。首先是考虑专家对一半能源期货的看法，以及公众对这些看法的看法。第二种观点考虑了基于地点的期权，以获得一半的能源期货的社会利益。第三个角度是考虑监管和政策选择，这将更好地支持半期货。贯穿整个研究方案的是创建强大的工具的意图，这些工具在其分析中以投资为导向。这里需要一种完整的系统和能源系统集成方法，以便从技术、社会、环境和经济角度更好地理解复杂能源系统的相互联系和相互依存的性质。该中心由EPSRC国家能源系统集成中心主任Sara Walker教授领导，由16名处于不同职业阶段的学者组成的团队提供支持。该团队在大型能源研究项目方面拥有丰富的经验，并在英格兰、威尔士、苏格兰和北爱尔兰拥有强大的利益相关者网络。例如，他们通过参与盖茨黑德的InTEGReL、奥克尼的Relex和南威尔士的Flexis示威的合作伙伴的支持，为中心带来了主要的氢气示威者。我们将致力于创建一个充满活力、多样化和开放的社区，对整个系统的方法以及氢和替代液体燃料在其中的作用有更深入的了解。我们将以一种将平等、多样性和包容性融入其中的方式这样做。我们将以一种虚拟和面对面实地工作咨询相结合的方式开展这项工作，并开发适当的数字工具以供参与。

Hydrogen and alternative liquid fuels (HALF) have an essential role in the net-zero transition by providing connectivity and flexibility across the energy system. Despite advancements in the field of hydrogen research both in the physical sciences and engineering, significant barriers remain to the scalable adoption of hydrogen and alternative liquid fuel technologies, and energy services, into the UK's local and national whole system infrastructure. These are technical barriers, organisational barriers, regulatory and societal barriers, and financial barriers. There are, therefore, significant gaps between current levels of hydrogen production, transportation, storage, conversion, and usage, and the estimated requirement for achieving net-zero by 2050. To address this, our proposed research programme has four interlinked work packages. WP1 will develop forward-thinking HALF technology roadmaps. We will assess supply chain availability and security. Selected representative HALF use cases will be used to identify and quantify any opportunities, risks and dependencies within a whole systems analysis. We will also develop an overarching roadmap for HALF system integration in order to inform technology advancement, industry and business development, as well as policy making and social interventions. WP2 will improve HALF characterisation and explore urgent new perspectives on the energy transition, including those related to ensuring resilience and security while also achieving net-zero. We will contrast the energy transition delivered by real incentives/behaviour versus those projected by widely-used optimisation models. The WP provides the whole systems modelling engine of the HI-ACT Hub, with a diverse array of state-of-the-art tools to explore HALF integration. WP 3 will explore the vital coupling of data and information relating to whole system planning and operational decision support, through the creation of a cyber physical architecture (CPA). This will generate new learning on current and future opportunities and risks, from a data and information perspective, which will lead to a whole system ontology for accelerated integration of hydrogen technologies. WP 4 considers options for a future energy system with HALF from a number of perspectives. The first is to consider expert views on HALF energy futures, and the public perceptions of those views. The second perspective considers place-based options for social benefit in HALF energy futures. The third perspective is to consider regulatory and policy options which would better enable HALF futures. Embedded across the research programme is the intent to create robust tools which are investment-oriented in their analysis. A Whole Systems and Energy Systems Integration approach is needed here, in order to better understand the interconnected and interdependent nature of complex energy systems from a technical, social, environmental and economic perspective. The Hub is led by Prof Sara Walker, Director of the EPSRC National Centre for Energy Systems Integration, supported by a team of 16 academics at a range of career stages. The team have extensive experience of large energy research projects and strong networks of stakeholders across England, Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland. They bring to the Hub major hydrogen demonstrators through support from partners involved in InTEGReL in Gateshead, ReFLEX in Orkney, and FLEXIS Demonstration in South Wales for example. We shall engage to create a vibrant, diverse, and open community that has a deeper understanding of whole systems approaches and the role of hydrogen and alternative liquid fuels within that. We shall do so in a way which embeds Equality, Diversity and Inclusion in the approach. We shall do so in a way which is a hybrid of virtual and in-person field work consultation and develop appropriate digital tools for engagement.