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Source: University of Aberdeen Work is already well underway across the University to advance energy transition research in key areas including renewable generation, the hydrogen economy, and biomass and carbon capture and utilisationThe University of Aberdeen will mark the official launch of its Centre for Energy Transition (CET) with an online event on Monday, 31 May. The event, introduced by University Principal Professor George Boyne, and featuring a pre-recorded address from Anne Marie Trevelyan, UK Minister of State for Business, Energy and Clean Growth, will include speakers from industry and from local community group Aberdeen Climate Action, followed by an audience Q&A. ....
Green and blue Scrimshaw is technology-agnostic on hydrogen production pathways. To reach net-zero CO2 emissions by 2050, both green hydrogen produced from renewable power and blue hydrogen produced from natural gas with CCS would be needed, he said. I think the blue will be more competitive in the short term, he said. But to get to carbon-neutral by 2050, you will have to have large volumes of green. Scrimshaw expects subsidies or some sort of market stimulation will be needed in the early days. We should try and get a pipeline of the smaller green projects going now, he said. The UK needs to be at gigawatt scale by the end of the 2020s and then deploy at multi-gigawatt scale in the 2030s and 2040s. ....