Techno-Economic Evaluation of Distributed Photovoltaic Hydrogen Production——Cost benet analysis based on the perspective of the entire lifecycle
Exploring the cost components and economic benefits of hydrogen production is of great significance in pro-moting the development and utilization of hydrogen energy and building a new development pattern of energy.This paper de-fines the economic evaluation boundary of distributed photovoltaic hydrogen production from the perspective of the entire life cycle,and constructs a techno-economic evaluation and energy efficiency evaluation model.And take the example of hydrogen production from photovoltaic power generation in three types of resource areas for empirical analysis.The results show that the levelized cost of hydrogen production from photovoltaic power generation increases gradually from Class Ⅰ to Class Ⅲ resource areas.The results of the study provide useful references for the utilization of hydrogen energy as well as the large-scale utiliza-tion of distributed photovoltaic hydrogen production,which is conducive to promoting the scientific and rational development of China s hydrogen production industry.