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

氢和替代液体燃料（HALF）通过提供整个能源系统的连接性和灵活性，在净零排放转型中发挥着至关重要的作用。尽管氢研究在物理科学和工程领域都取得了进步，但在英国地方和国家整体系统基础设施中大规模采用氢和替代液体燃料技术以及能源服务仍然存在重大障碍。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、转换和使用水平与到2050年实现净零排放的估计需求之间存在巨大差距。为了解决这个问题，我们提议的研究方案有四个相互关联的工作包。WP1将制定具有前瞻性的HALF技术路线图。我们将评估供应链的可用性和安全性。选定的代表性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。我们还将为HALF系统集成制定总体路线图，以便为技术进步、工业和商业发展、政策制定和社会干预提供信息。WP2将改进HALF的特征，并探索能源转型的紧迫新视角，包括与确保弹性和安全性同时实现净零相关的视角。我们将对比实际激励/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。WP提供了HI-ACT Hub的整个系统建模引擎，以及各种先进的工具来探索HALF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操作决策支持相关的数据和信息的重要耦合。从数据和信息的角度来看，这将产生关于当前和未来机会和风险的新学习，这将导致加速氢技术整合的整个系统本体。WP 4从多个角度考虑了HALF未来能源系统的选择。首先是考虑专家对HALF能源期货的看法，以及公众对这些观点的看法。第二个视角考虑了HALF能源期货中基于地点的社会效益选择。第三个角度是考虑监管和政策选择，这将更好地实现半期货。贯穿整个研究计划的意图是创建在分析中以投资为导向的强大工具。为了从技术、社会、环境和经济的角度更好地理解复杂能源系统的相互联系和相互依存的本质，这里需要一个完整的系统和能源系统集成方法。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位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，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。通过盖茨黑德的InTEGReL、奥克尼的ReFLEX和南威尔士的FLEXIS示范等合作伙伴的支持，他们将主要的氢示范带到枢纽。我们将致力于创建一个充满活力、多样化和开放的社区，对整个系统方法以及氢和替代液体燃料在其中的作用有更深入的理解。我们将以一种将平等、多样性和包容纳入方法的方式这样做。我们将以虚拟和面对面实地工作咨询相结合的方式开展工作，并开发适当的数字工具以促进参与。

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.