Is the hydrogen hype debate too narrowly focused?
People talk a lot about the perceived barriers holding back the UK’s green hydrogen push and the Financial Times ’ reporting neatly sums up what’s seen to be the biggest challenge: “Hydrogen infrastructure is not currently in place and won’t be for many years.”
Yes, for many industrial or ‘high temperature’ applications, major infrastructure will be key to lowering transport costs. But there are critical uses for hydrogen today that don’t require bulk shipments.
Reliable supply of high purity hydrogen is needed right now, for life sciences, pharmaceuticals, heavy-duty mobility and even semiconductor production. And it can be made using small modular units, like the technology developed at Clean Power Hydrogen (CPH2), right when and where businesses need it and at a lower lifetime cost of production.
Hydrogen doesn’t always have to be about future markets, pipelines and ports.
Cost and complexity hobble UK’s drive for low-carbon hydrogen