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Energy Policy Simulator - United States
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Breakout hydrogen fuel into production-specific fuels #296

Open robbieorvis opened 8 months ago

robbieorvis commented 8 months ago

Currently, we track total hydrogen demand in the model and then break apart it's production through input data and policy levers.

Increasingly, we are being asked for information about specific hydrogen fuel pathways, including demand and production.

It probably makes sense to break apart hydrogen into its production pathways as unique fuels, e.g. hydrogen becomes green hydrogen, blue hydrogen, etc... and then we can explicitly track demand for the different fuels and associated production processes and costs. It requires adding more fuels to the model but brings a lot more detail in hydrogen demand and supply.