Delivering Green Hydrogen: Infrastructure, Investment and Cross-Sector Collaboration
This briefing will discuss the barriers to green hydrogen and how different sectors can work together to turn plans into reality.
Green hydrogen is increasingly central to the UK's net zero strategy, offering a route to decarbonise sectors where direct electrification is not viable: steel, cement, glass, chemicals, heavy transport, and maritime. Yet deployment is not primarily constrained by technology. The bottlenecks are infrastructural, financial, and systemic: grid connection backlogs, limited storage capacity, an underdeveloped hydrogen transport network, and a financing environment where risk allocation remains unresolved.
Emerging approaches, such as co-locating electrolysers with renewable generation, repurposing existing gas assets, and phasing infrastructure build-out around industrial clusters, are beginning to show what delivery could look like. Unlocking private investment at scale requires clearer public coordination, stronger demand signals, and collaboration across sectors.
This WIG briefing brings together senior leaders from government, law, and academia to examine what it would take to move from ambition to delivery, and where cross-sector partnership could make the decisive difference.
Key discussion points:
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What are the principal barriers to green hydrogen infrastructure delivery today, and which are most amenable to cross-sector solutions?
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How should infrastructure investment be sequenced, and what role can government, industry, and finance play at each stage?
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What can the UK learn from more advanced international markets, and where does it have genuine competitive advantage?
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