This interactive webapp can be used to reproduce figures from an accompanying article by the same authors that studies the renewables pull and its impact on industrial relocation for future global green value chains of energy-intensive basic materials. Some of the main assumptions, i.e. the electricity prices and the transport cost can be changed here when generating the figures.
We employ techno-economic assessments to compute the levelised cost of production for the studied green (i.e. low-carbon) value chains of steel, urea, and ethylene for cases of varying depth of relocation.
The results show that substantial relocation savings for the levelised cost of production can be anticipated for full relocation of the studied value chains. Moreover, by studying cases of varying depth of relocation, we can demonstrate that a large share of the energy-cost savings is associated with relocating electrolysis to more renewable-favourable locations, yet the high transportation cost of shipping-based hydrogen imports result in only minor overall relocation savings.
For more advanced changes and detailed information on the input data and methodology, we encourage users to inspect the article, its supplement, and the source code written in Python.