The Shure Energy Conversion Center “Priority Areas for Turkey’s National Hydrogen Strategy” According to the report, Turkey sahip.yeşil hydrogen manufacturing into green hydrogen potential of 1.6 million tons, the buildings, the conversion of transport and gas sector% of Turkey’s annual final energy demand It can meet 5 of them.

The Shure Energy Conversion Center at Bilkent prepared with the support of the Research Center for Energy Policy “Priority Areas for Turkey’s National Hydrogen Strategy” report, “Turkey’s Hydrogen Strategy” was announced at the event. The goal of the report to determine the main title of the strategies necessary for green hydrogen, contributing to the creation of green hydrogen Turkey’s national strategy.

SHURA Energy Transition Center Director Dr. Değer Saygın from MIT Energy Initiative, Dr. Emre Gençer, METU Mechanical Engineering Department faculty member Prof. Dr. İskender Gökalp, Barış Sanlı and Dr. Chat Karbuz attended.

“Priority Areas for Turkey’s National Hydrogen Strategy” report, more chemicals and is expanding raw materials with the use of the hydrogen petrochemical products and the world, vision and strategy is emphasized created to be used as an energy carrier in different sectors. These include new areas in the manufacturing industry that are gaining momentum, such as the production of iron, steel and cement, freight transport, and the addition of hydrogen to natural gas grids.

SHURA Energy Transition Center Director Dr. Saygın emphasized that the most important factor for the widespread use of green hydrogen is the decrease in production costs. Saygın said, “Global level evaluations show that cost competitiveness will be around $ 2-3 per kilogram of green hydrogen produced. “For this, it is necessary to accelerate the learning in technology that will reduce the initial investment costs of the electrolyser, to continue the decrease in renewable energy costs, to use the electrolyser capacity at the optimum level and to increase the efficiency of the electrolyser.”

Saygın also emphasized that the 5% mixture to be made in the natural gas network could eliminate the natural gas import cost equivalent to 2.5 billion cubic meters per year, approximately $ 0.6 billion.

Turkey’s Energy Strategy of Increasing Importance of Green Hydrogen

The importance of hydrogen in the energy strategy in Turkey is increasing day by day. Hydrogen, which is responsible for the total final energy consumption in Turkey’s manufacturing industry, can play an important role in building and transport sectors. It takes place as steel and cement production Turkey’s top rankings on a global scale, represents a significant share in the country’s industrial energy demand. Road freight transport is a rapidly growing sector in terms of energy demand.

Reputable, the words continued as follows: “Natural gas networks, especially Turkey 53 million active users, representing approximately two-thirds of the population, a total of 50 billion cubic meters of gas annually on average with demand in other sectors brings to different destinations in the country. fossil fuels are used to substitute low carbon solutions in this sector is currently limited and costly, these areas pose challenges in Turkey’s energy conversion. “

According to the report, renewable energy source-based green hydrogen can provide an important opportunity in the transformation of energy last consuming sectors. most manufacturing-intensive fossil fuels consumed in Turkey, buildings, in areas such as transportation and gas sector that 1.6 million tons to 4.6 million tons of oil equivalent level of total final energy consumption is green hydrogen potential of Turkey in 2018 about 5% can be replaced with green hydrogen.