
The real bottleneck in scaling clean hydrogen is demand, not technology – here’s why
Clean hydrogen can be a valuable climate and energy security solution, but project design needs to shift in four ways to secure the financing to scale it.
Aliaksei (Alex) Patonia is a Research Fellow in Commercial Hydrogen Development at the Oxford Institute for Energy Studies. His work focuses on the infrastructure, economics and governance of hydrogen deployment in the context of net-zero energy transitions. He examines how hydrogen systems interact with wider energy markets and policy frameworks, with particular emphasis on uncertainty, risk and large-scale investment decision-making. His research combines techno-economic analysis and systems thinking to assess hydrogen production, transport, storage and end-use infrastructure, and engages closely with policymakers, industry and international organisations on the practical challenges of scaling low-carbon energy systems.
Clean hydrogen can be a valuable climate and energy security solution, but project design needs to shift in four ways to secure the financing to scale it.
El hidrógeno puede ser renovable, pero tiene sus retos, por lo que también tenemos que estudiar la captura y almacenamiento de carbono a fin de alcanzar el cero neto.
Hydrogen may be renewable but has its challenges, so we also need to look at carbon capture and storage to help the world decarbonize and meet net zero.
