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Exploring the Role of Hydrogen to Achieve the Italian Decarbonization Targets Using an Open-Source Energy System Optimization Model

Hydrogen is expected to become an undisputed player in the ecological transition throughout the next decades. The decarbonization potential offered by this energy vector provides various opportunities for the so-called “hard-to-abate” sectors, including industrial production of iron and steel, glass, refineries and the heavy-duty transport. In this regard, Italy, in the framework of decarbonization plans for the whole European Union, has been considering a wider use of hydrogen to provide an ...

Technology-Specific Hurdle Rates for Energy System Optimization Models

This work presents a methodology to evaluate technology-specific hurdle rates for energy system optimization models. Hurdle rates are usually assumed through educated guesses by energy system modellers, while they are estimated here by adopting the weighted average cost of capital methodology where possible and collecting data from the available literature in the other cases. The methodology is applied to the TEMOA-Italy open-source model: first, the updated hurdle rates are compared to the o...

A Comprehensive Metric to Assess the Security of Future Energy Systems Through Energy System Optimization Models

Ensuring energy security is one of the main objectives of energy policies of many countries worldwide. In this regard, this paper proposes a metric to evaluate energy security under medium-to-long term energy scenarios generated by the TEMOA-Italy model. Such a metric consists of an energy security index covering several dimensions of energy security. Among them, the inclusion of the supply risk of critical raw materials represents a novelty, compared to the existing literature. Moreover, cri...

Synthesis of stable Hole Transporting Materials (HTMs) for emerging hybrid photovoltaics