Future hydrogen demand. A cross-sectoral, global meta-analysis

Hydrogen and synthesis products are considered to be of high importance in future energy systems and therefore play an increasing role in climate change mitigation strategies. This working paper provides an overview of scenarios for the future development of hydrogen demand from a global perspective. The results show the range of possible developments in total as well as for the sectors industry, buildings and transport. Next to worldwide demand, results for the EU and China are disclosed. The bandwidths of hydrogen demand have been determined based on over 40 recently published energy system and hydrogen scenarios. The focus is on scenarios with ambitious reduction targets for greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. In the following, these scenarios are referred to as "focus scenarios". In addition, the projected hydrogen demand is compared to the bandwidth of over 300 mitigation scenarios from the 6th Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), referred to as "IPCC scenarios".