RE:TV Hydrogen Press Release

London, 13th December 2024 – Clean hydrogen has a vital role to play in the global energy transition. Renewables are powering more of our world than ever before, but not everything can be electrified. Sectors like transport and heavy industry require intensive energy that renewables can’t supply, making them especially hard to abate. Hydrogen can help to decarbonise these more demanding aspects of our economy, but this vision of the future can't be realised by simply switching between energy types. Instead, we must transform our existing systems, building a new energy infrastructure across the globe.

This transition to green hydrogen is the focus of a new film - Hydrogen: Beyond the Hype - by RE:TV, to be released Wednesday 18th December. RE:TV is dedicated to raising awareness of the innovative climate solutions and technology being developed around the world among an audience of business leaders and sustainability professionals through high-quality film productions.

“There’s a lot of hot air and confusion around hydrogen’s potential role in the energy transition,” explains Dan Watt-Smith, RE:TV’s Channel Editor. “We wanted to explore the different ways that hydrogen might contribute to us reaching our 2050 emissions targets, understand the scientific and economic challenges hydrogen faces in scaling up, and explore some of the innovations that could be truly transformative for developing economies.”

Ivana Jemelkova from Hydrogen Council says, "We’re building a whole new dimension of the global energy system. It's like nothing we've ever done before." This may sound like a tall order, but the opportunity it presents is staggering. So, what's it going to take to push hydrogen beyond the breakthrough?

Fellow contributor Mike Adams of climate technology specialists 8 Rivers is a firm believer in hydrogen’s potential to advance the energy transition, but he points out that the industry’s current infrastructure needs to be redesigned to support clean hydrogen over its carbon-intensive alternatives.

An innovative project in Namibia offers a glimpse of what that infrastructure might look like. Toni Beukes of Hyphen outlines the potential impact of the gigawatt scale green hydrogen project which is produced using electrolysis powered by renewables instead of fossil fuels. For developing countries with an abundance of wind and solar resources, green hydrogen presents a great economic opportunity that could transform society.

One thing is clear; radical innovation is needed across the board, from technology and infrastructure to policy, regulations, and standardised measurement. Investment is also key to enabling progress.

Jemelkova agrees, she concludes, “The pathway to clean hydrogen scaling globally is very simple in theory. We need three things, one is clear and stable regulation so that businesses know how to make investment decisions; we need global standards, which is absolutely key so we can compare hydrogen’s cleanliness and environmental attributes etc.; and lastly, we need visibility on uptake. It’s not enough to produce the hydrogen, we need to deploy it somewhere that makes sense and for this we need help matching production and uptake.”

Unlocking clean hydrogen’s true potential wouldn’t just support the transition to net zero – it could also be the catalyst for a new nature-positive industrial age.

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Downloadable link to the trailer https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/6hhfdqfb1gkf23hzb3h6z/RE505-HTeaser-241126.4.mp4?rlkey=t0os5clj2qdml4182n9e1o8kz&st=e8nlqn53&dl=0   

Link to the film on the RE:TV website - Not live yet - final version to be published Weds 18th
https://www.re-tv.org/articles/hydrogen-beyond-the-hype     

Link to the film on Vimeo - Viewing copy only - Final version to be published Weds 18th
https://vimeo.com/1038899532/6de842fce5?share=copy     

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Link to the Reimagining Energy Hub on the RE:TV website
https://www.re-tv.org/topics/energy 

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Mike Adams -
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Ivana Jemelkova -
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