SoftWater contributed to the study Sustainable paths for the use and management of water in the hydrogen value chain, by assessing the interactions between renewable hydrogen production and water resource management under current and future climate change scenarios. The work supported the evaluation of sustainable hydrogen deployment pathways by analysing regional water availability, competing water demands, and potential risks associated with increasing hydrogen production, with a particular focus on Southern Europe and North Africa.
SoftWaterteam was responsible for:
mapping current and future renewable hydrogen production at regional scale and integrating these projections with water availability and sectoral water use datasets;
running hydrological models simulation to evaluate the impacts of renewable hydrogen production in 5 specific case studies;
designing and developing the Clean Hydrogen Explorer, an interactive geospatial platform providing GIS-based visualisation of water resource conditions and renewable hydrogen production scenarios to support evidence-based policy making.
