Hydrogen remains a potential lever to help decarbonize a portion of the world’s energy supply. Regulations, trade, and technology must move toward some level of standardization to support this large-scale deployment. As capacity increases, cost will decrease, attracting new investment—and this in turn will help deploy further capacity and infrastructure, while removing the need for subsidies and incentives to provide support for economic feasibility. As the hydrogen economy progresses, there are significant opportunities to drive safety, efficiency, reliability, and cost competitiveness. Digital foundations and automation are strategic levers to accelerate learning and help scale the economy.

This talk will discuss these topics and support the idea that through automation and technology, we will see the hydrogen economy become a sizeable, critical link in the energy supply of the future, helping the world to meet its ambition to a meaningful reduction in greenhouse gas emissions, while at the same time satisfying the energy affordability and reliability concerns necessary of society.