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Impact of global heterogeneity of renewable energy supply on heavy industrial production and green value chains

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Verpoort,  Philipp
Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research;

Gast,  Lukas
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Hofmann,  Anke
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Ueckerdt,  Falko
Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research;

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Verpoort, P., Gast, L., Hofmann, A., Ueckerdt, F. (in press): Impact of global heterogeneity of renewable energy supply on heavy industrial production and green value chains. - Nature Energy.
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41560-024-01492-z


Zitierlink: https://publications.pik-potsdam.de/pubman/item/item_29811
Zusammenfassung
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’, which 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 while keeping substantial value creation in renewable-scarce importing regions. In renewable-scarce regions, a societal debate on macroeconomic, industrial and geopolitical implications is needed, potentially resulting in selective policies of green-relocation protection.