Understanding the Potential of Hydrogen Technology Adoption in a Complex Changing Energy System

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Energy is provided by multiple stakeholders who interact in complex systems in which past economic, engineering, technological, social, and regulatory decisions influence the relative potential of existing and new technologies to be adopted. Thus, yesterday's energy system influences the potential for new hydrogen technologies to be adopted, and decisions taken as we adopt new renewable technologies, will have long term consequences with regard to which new technologies will be adopted, as decision taken are likely to bias the energy systems development in favour of some technologies over others. Given this context, this project would 1) characterise the existing energy system including the development of alternative non-hydrogen based renewable technologies 2) Categorise potential hydrogen technologies on economic, technological, and engineering grounds so as to evaluate their potential for successful adoption, 3) provided detailed analysis with regard to how the existing energy system supports and or hinders the development of the analysed technologies, and 4) provided understanding and strategic insights with regard to how engineering, managerial, regulatory, technological factors would need to change in order to foster stronger adoption of hydrogen technologies.