SDG: Green hydrogen to achieve decarbonization goals

On November 1, 2023, Management Department of Higher School of Business and Economics organized a scientific seminar on the implementation of sustainable development goals. A scientific report on “Forecast for the development of green hydrogen production technologies based on component-wise learning curves” by Kostantin GennadievichGomonov, Ph.D. in Economics, Associate Professor of EMM Department, was presented at the seminar.

Research within the framework of the project, implemented at Economics Faculty of RUDN University, is interdisciplinary in nature. The speaker noted that hydrogen energy is becoming one of the most effective ways to decarbonize global energy and transport systems. The costs of producing green hydrogen are currently high. The likelihood of cost reduction is quite high due to economies of scale and learning-by-doing effects. The scientific study aims to predict future costs of green hydrogen based on a multi-component learning curve approach.

Scientists say that government support is needed to accelerate the development of electrolysis technologies and achieve decarbonization goals by 2050.