S1E106: Green hydrogen: All hype or real hope for our planet?

This nascent industry holds much promise but needs to manage the
giddy ambitions of some investors and governments. 


Synopsis: Every first and third Monday of the month, The Straits
Times analyses the beat of the changing environment, from
biodiversity conservation to climate change.


Everyone is talking about green hydrogen as the fuel of the
future. It’s regarded as a key way the global economy can
transition away from polluting fossil fuels to create a cleaner
and greener future. 


Huge projects have been announced worth many billions of dollars.
And more and more governments say they see the promise of using
renewable energy to create hydrogen that can power factories,
generate electricity and even fuel ships and planes. 


But is this all just more hype or is there real promise in
rapidly scaling up green hydrogen production? To find out the
challenges ahead, ST's climate editor David Fogarty hosts Mr Alex
Tancock, chief executive officer and co-founder of
InterContinental Energy, a developer of large-scale hydrogen
projects in some of the sunniest places on Earth. 


Highlights (click/tap above):


1:34 What is green hydrogen? Why is it attracting so much
interest from investors and governments?


4:21 Main uses for green hydrogen


16:40 More than 1,000 green hydrogen projects have been announced
recently, yet very few have reached financial close: What's
holding the industry back?


20:27 Mr Alex Tancock: "The challenge we have is to scale-up and
scale-up very quickly. And I see that as more of an opportunity."


21:46 Costs of green hydrogen


Produced by: David Fogarty (dfogarty@sph.com.sg), Ernest
Luis, Hadyu Rahim & Paxton Pang


Edited by: Fa'izah Sani & Hadyu Rahim


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