Impact of global heterogeneity of renewable energy supply on heavy industrial production and green value chains
Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research
Abstract
Abstract On the path to climate neutrality, global production locations and trade patterns of basic materials might change due to the heterogeneous availability of renewable electricity. Here we estimate the ‘renewables pull’, that is, the energy-cost savings, for varying depths of relocation for three key tradable energy-intensive industrial commodities: steel, urea and ethylene. For an electricity-price difference of €40 MWh −1 , we find respective relocation savings of 18%, 32% and 38%, which might, despite soft factors in the private sector, lead to green relocation. Conserving today’s production patterns by shipping hydrogen is substantially costlier, whereas trading intermediate products could save costs…
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- 22.92
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- 100%
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- 43
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4Topics & keywords
- Renewable energy
- Production (economics)
- Value (mathematics)
- Supply chain
- Environmental science
- Natural resource economics
- Business
- Economics