Wind & Solar Track
18:45 - 20:15
Room: Douro IV + Douro VI
Submission 285
FACILITY-LEVEL TECHNO-ECONOMIC POTENTIAL OF ELECTRIFIED INDUSTRIAL PROCESS HEAT IN EUROPEAN MANUFACTURING
52 GIW26-285
Presented by: Anna Yuen
Anna Yuen 1, 2, Amol Phadke 2
1 University of California, Berkeley. Energy and Resource Group., United States
2 Goldman School of Public Policy, University of California, Berkeley, United States, United States

Industrial process heat dominates manufacturing emissions in the EU. Yet, there are readily available solutions that can continuously generate process heat. Industrial heat pumps and heat batteries paired with on-site solar PV can be a solution to bring power to heat generation quickly and cost competitively with natural gas. Using a dataset of 2,192 facilities of different manufacturing sectors from Climate TRACE, each facility is modelled with co-located, off-grid solar PV with industrial heat pumps and batteries installed in 2030. Under this modelled configuration, 58.8% of fossil-fuelled process heat can be decarbonised using solar PV within a 5 km buffer zone around each facility site at an average levelised cost of heat of €55/MWh. After expanding the buffer zone to 15 km, the share of possible decarbonised heat rises to 84.4% of process heat at €62/MWh against an EU average gas-heat cost of €93/MWh. Each facility is optimised to provide the highest availability and highest savings under its country's gas costs. These results show that Southern Europe can cost-competitively decarbonise over 95% of its heat demand. Central Europe (Rhine-Meuse Region), where most of the large, heat intensive sources are located, can decarbonise over 70% of its heat demand using on-site solar plus storage.