FAQ about Green Hydrogen

5. What is the Green Hydrogen catapult?

The Green Hydrogen Catapult is the designation of an initiative that aims to unify the efforts of several companies with a view to increasing and reducing the cost of green hydrogen production. Its purpose is to progressively replace fossil fuels until reaching the goal of global net zero emissions by 2050, an important contribution to limiting the increase in global temperature to 1.5ºC, the main column of the Paris Agreement.

On December 8, 2020, seven world leading companies announced the formation of a global coalition that will accelerate the scale and production of green hydrogen, with a view to multiplying its current production by fifty, within the next six years. The goal is to help migrate the most energy intensive industries that base their energy on carbon towards the use of green H2. These are the electrical power generation industries, chemical producers, steel industries, air and maritime transport, among others.

The Green Hydrogen Catapult initiative is made up of these seven companies, leaders in the green hydrogen industry: ACWA Power, CWP Renewables, Envision, Iberdrola, Ørsted, Snam and Yara.

The group’s goal is to deploy 25 gigawatts by 2026 of hydrogen production based on renewable energies, with a view to reducing the cost of hydrogen to less than $2 US / kg, a price that is required to compete with fossil fuels.

Other sections of Green Hydrogen

The purpose of this report is to update the reader about the present and future of green hydrogen. Hydrogen is more efficient and cleaner burning, so it is renewable energy and does not harm the environment.