Study on Independent System Utilizing Hydrogen from Renewable energy and Evaluation of cost

Abstract

With the impacts of weather disasters on agriculture and the decrease of agricultural population, a plant factory, which is a closed growing system which enables a farmer to achieve constant production of vegetables all year around, offers a mean for secure efficient agricultural production. However it needs a large amount of initial investment and a large energy consumption. Furthermore the Japanese energy industry has relied on large scale power plants where electricity comes from burning fossil fuel which lead to CO2 and other greenhouse gas emissions. Therefore, results presented in this paper focus on planning an independent energy system, which uses hydrogen as an energy strange mediums, and which takes into account environmental and economic evaluation on plant factory.