Tyrol 2050-Scenarios of a Fossil-Free Future

The presented study deals with energy scenarios for Tyrol/Austria, how energy systems in 2050 (buildings, production and mobility) could look like without fossil fuel use. For the building sector a course of the needed development is given. All available renewable energy carriers in Tyrol are needed and very high energy efficiency measures have to be taken to reach this goal. Four extreme scenarios and one mix-scenario were calculated. The extreme scenarios are dealing with primarily either electricity (I), hydrogen (II) or green-methane (III and IIIa) as future secondary energy carrier. The mix scenario (IV) is dealing with a more realistic mix of all these. Going for hydrogen and power to methane in an intense way, the electricity demand increases by far and large areas of PV fields on free land are needed.