Research software used for the techno-economic analysis of the cost competitiveness of blue and green hydrogen
This repository make source codes and input data publicly available that were used in the analysis of the cost competitiveness of blue and green hydrogen supply options in an accompanying article and interactive webapp.
This software (source code and input data): Verpoort, Philipp C.; Ueckerdt, Falko; Anantharaman, Rahul; Bauer, Christian; Beck, Fiona; Longden, Thomas; Roussanaly, Simon (2023): Research software used for the techno-economic analysis of the cost competitiveness of blue and green hydrogen. V. 3.0.3. GFZ Data Services. https://doi.org/10.5880/pik.2023.007
The accompanying interactive webapp: Verpoort, Philipp C.; Ueckerdt, Falko; Anantharaman, Rahul; Bauer, Christian; Beck, Fiona; Longden, Thomas; Roussanaly, Simon (2023): Interactive webapp for techno-economic analysis of the cost competitiveness of blue and green hydrogen. V. 3.0.3. GFZ Data Services. https://doi.org/10.5880/pik.2023.006
The accompanying peer-reviewed article: Ueckerdt et al., On the cost competitiveness of blue and green hydrogen, Joule (2024). https://doi.org/10.1016/j.joule.2023.12.004
This source code can be installed and executed to reproduce all the results (mainly figures) presented in the accompanying article and to run the interactive webapp. Note that the webapp is also hosted as a public service here: https://doi.org/10.5880/pik.2023.006
If you would like to try to execute this software locally on your machine, then you will need to have its Python dependencies installed.
The easiest way to accomplish this is via poetry:
poetry install
Alternatively, you can install the required packages using pip (potentially following the creation of a virtual environment):
pip install git+https://github.com/PhilippVerpoort/[email protected]
pip install pandas openpyxl kaleido pyyaml
After activating the virtual environment (e.g. via poetry shell), please use:
python export.py
This will export all figures. Alternatively, you may choose to export only Fig. 1 by using:
python export.py fig1
The interactive webapp, which is also hosted here, can be run via:
python webapp.py
and then navigating to the provided IP address and port provided in your terminal, which is usually http://127.0.0.1:8050/.
The source code in this repository is available under an MIT Licence, a copy of which is also provided as a separate file in this repository.
The following references are cited in input-data files in the data/ subdirectory.
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