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PE Live: Commercial hydrogen projects present specific risks
Mitigating these risks is different at a commercial scale than it is with demonstration projects, say panellists
Pilot hydrogen production projects offer a different risk profile to commercial projects and therefore require different ways of managing that risk, according to panellists on a PE Live webinar titled De-risking Hydrogen Investments, held in association with professional services firm EY. Many companies in the nascent hydrogen space are deploying pilot projects as they look to demonstrate technologies before commercial rollout. With most national hydrogen strategies only recently released, it is likely to be the middle of the decade before large commercial-scale projects start to be widely deployed. Some projects are emerging in Europe, the US and the Middle East for mid-size electrolysers,
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