There has been a significant increase in investor interest in companies focusing on hydrogen technology as governments included them in their post-COVID recovery plans. In this paper, we look at hydrogen from the environmental standpoint, as well as key factors supporting its future development, such as investment, current projects and government support.
Hydrogen has long been talked about as a “clean” source of energy of the future. However, technology did not exist to make that happen at an affordable cost and on a wide scale. This is changing fast and governments are moving to support hydrogen-based power with substantial public investment and business incentives, presenting a multitude of opportunities for investors.
In the power sector, hydrogen is expected to become a catalyst for value creation over the long term. However, high costs, regulation and technology remain the main obstacles for hydrogen becoming a serious competitive option in the near future. It will also be necessary to increase production capacity of "green" electricity so that the hydrogen produced through electrolysis can be regarded as truly “green”. In the transport sector, hydrogen will not be the only way to achieve carbon neutrality for Europe by 2050 but it will have an important role to play.
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