The Growing Hydrogen Economy in Alberta and Beyond
The face of energy is changing, and those facing an unstable decision-making landscape require the data-backed insights RWI Synthetics can offer.
Take the future of Alberta’s hydrogen economy: it’s estimated that the number of employees working with hydrogen in the province will increase fourfold by 2027. How can we best ensure our transitioning energy sector has a labour force and first responders with the necessary standardized knowledge base to work safely and confidently in this growing sector?
Creating a Synthetic Twin for Alberta’s Hydrogen Future
In partnership with the Alberta Motor Transport Association, Edmonton Global, the CSA Group, and others, RWI generated data to provide analytics and insight into the potential risks involved in working with hydrogen, and where they might be encountered as the hydrogen economy grows throughout Alberta.
To that end, RWI modelled and synthesized an Alberta of 2030 with an increased use of hydrogen-powered trucks, hydrogen-heated homes, and fueling stations.
Generating this provincial model involved researching, compiling, and visualizing a staggering amount of data, including forecasted, location-specific activity and potential future risks, within our proprietary 6D-modelling platform, Synthetic Earth.
We visualized a comprehensive risk assessment landscape including equipment failures, truck collisions, and blending gate leakage, even though many of these hazards hold an annual occurrence rate of less than one percent.
Ongoing Changes, Adaptations, and Development
RWI’s contribution is part of this ongoing initiative, which is contributing to the informed, prepared, and safe hydrogen deployment in Alberta.
While our role was only one of many, we are unique in our ability to use proprietary Synthetic Modelling data to best inform stakeholders where no historical or traditional data may be available.