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Hydrogen is moving forward, the hype phase is over, and the next 5-10 years are critical!
The International Energy Agency (IEA) recently released its Global Hydrogen Review 2025, and it paints an interesting picture of where hydrogen stands today. Once considered a niche energy source, hydrogen has become a strategic priority worldwide, promising to decarbonize hard-to-abate industries, strengthen energy security, and drive industrial competitiveness. The reality? The sector is growing, but unevenly. Traditional uses like refining and ammonia production still dominate, while cleaner, low-emissions hydrogen barely makes up 1% of supply. Despite billions in investments and policy moves, challenges like high costs, slow implementation, and infrastructure gaps are slowing things down. In this blog, we'll break down the report's key findings in plain language, covering:
Hydrogen keeps growing globally and will cross 100 million tonnes of demand in 2025, but almost all of it is still made from fossil fuels and used in traditional sectors like refining and chemicals, with low‑emissions hydrogen still under 1% of supply and demand today. But the positive side is 𝐆𝐫𝐞𝐞𝐧 𝐡𝐲𝐝𝐫𝐨𝐠𝐞𝐧 𝐬𝐭𝐢𝐥𝐥 𝐠𝐫𝐨𝐰𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐟𝐚𝐬𝐭𝐞𝐫 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐧 𝐏𝐕 𝐝𝐢𝐝. The hype phase is over, it's time to focus on near-term implementation through small projects to increase public acceptance and lay the foundation for large-scale deployment in the long term. The bottleneck isn't technology maturity, it's more about policy and demand certainty.
#Green hydrogen is now three times larger than PV was in 1998, 12 years after reaching the 10 MW milestone.
Figure credit: Jan Rongé