IEA | The Role of E-fuels in Decarbonising Transport
Fuels obtained from electrolytic hydrogen, or e-fuels, could be a viable pathway
and scale up quickly by 2030, underpinned by a massive expansion of cheaper
renewable electricity and anticipated cost reductions of electrolysers.
Lowemission e-fuels can add to the diversification of decarbonisation options that are available for aviation and shipping and there exists a big potential synergy with biofuels production, especially in the form of biogenic CO2 utilisation.
This new IEA report presents a techno-economic assessment of a family of
emerging e-fuel technologies. It assesses the implications in terms of needed cost
reductions, resources and infrastructure investments of an assumed ambitious
goal of achieving a 10% share of e-fuels in aviation and shipping by 2030.
