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The investment cost currently assumed for methanol steam reforming appears unrealistically low at 18016 EUR/MW H2. Carels et al. (2025, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijhydene.2025.06.128) report investment costs of 4000 €2024/(kg H2/h) for methanol steam reforming in the supplementary material, Table 7, based on several literature sources. Using the hydrogen LHV of 33.33 kWh/kg, this corresponds to approximately 120012 €2024/MW H2. Although this value refers to 2035, it appears considerably more realistic than the current assumption.
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The investment cost currently assumed for methanol steam reforming appears unrealistically low at 18016 EUR/MW H2. Carels et al. (2025, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijhydene.2025.06.128) report investment costs of 4000 €2024/(kg H2/h) for methanol steam reforming in the supplementary material, Table 7, based on several literature sources. Using the hydrogen LHV of 33.33 kWh/kg, this corresponds to approximately 120012 €2024/MW H2. Although this value refers to 2035, it appears considerably more realistic than the current assumption.