[New] Industrial decarbonization and green fuel investments drive hydrogen production applications to experience their fastest growth rate through 2035.
Transpire Insight
[New] As Proton Exchange Membrane electrolyzers move into mass deployment across Europe and China, hydrogen-related demand is projected to climb toward 11% of total annual consumption.
Bingx Exchange
[New] As technological improvements lower production costs and expand applications, hydrogen investment is expected to play a prominent role in the financial landscape of 2026 and beyond.
Education
[New] Clean hydrogen uptake is expected to be strongest in emerging demand sectors by 2060, led by steelmaking (18% of total clean hydrogen use), aviation and maritime.
DNV
[New] Overall hydrogen volumes will grow by 170% and will see cumulative investments of USD3.2trn to 2060.
DNV
[New] Clean hydrogen will grow 100-fold from today's levels.
DNV
[New] Low-emissions hydrogen production includes historical values for 2020 and 2024 and an estimate of the potential production in 2030 from projects that have at least reached final investment decision (FID) and target operation before 2030.
IEA
[New] We find that the net forcing change in 2050 from all emissions associated with hydrogen deployment is strongly negative, with the cooling contribution from decreasing CO2 emissions larger than all other effects.
AGU Journals
[New] Because NOx emissions changes are growing over time from 2020 to 2050 as hydrogen deployment increases and because we report the average annual forcing changes in 2050, the nearer-term ozone effect dominates the longer-term methane effect.
AGU Journals
[New] Examining non-CO2 emissions more closely, we find that hydrogen emissions increase across all scenarios (+2.1 to 6.2 Mt in 2050), with larger increases in the High cases compared to the Low cases as expected.
AGU Journals
[New] The displacement of unabated fossil energy due to the imposed hydrogen deployment leads to reductions in global CO2 emissions in 2050 (relative to the No H2 case) that range between roughly 1,200 and 1,600 Mt CO2 per year.
AGU Journals
[New] While pipelines supply about a third of the hydrogen consumed in 2050, the Green H2 cases have slightly more delivered by pipeline, and therefore less delivered by truck than the Blue H2 cases.
AGU Journals
[New] Liquid fuels represent more than half of the total final energy displaced by hydrogen by 2050.
AGU Journals
[New] As early as 2035, hydrogen combustion emission factors drop to 125% of the equivalent gas-fired technology once their GDP per capita for a given model period reaches or exceeds that of China in 2010.
AGU Journals
[New] Hydrogen production is assumed to follow production in the Pipeline H2 T & D, High Demand case after subtracting hydrogen utilized for natural gas/hydrogen blends, resulting in roughly 19 EJ of total low-carbon hydrogen production in 2050.
AGU Journals
[New] Median global hydrogen deployment in IPCC 1.5 °C scenarios is about 13 EJ in 2050, with some scenarios projecting substantially more (Byers et al., 2022).
AGU Journals
[New] Across all scenarios considered, when compared to a scenario without expanded hydrogen deployment, reduced forcing from lower CO2 emissions is larger than other forcing changes by 2050 even after accounting for hydrogen and other indirect forcers.
AGU Journals
[New] The European Union, under its REPowerEU plan, aims to produce 10 Mt of renewable hydrogen domestically by 2030 and import another 10 Mt, as stated by the European Commission.
Precedence Research
[New] If all announced projects are realized, low-emission hydrogen capacity could reach nearly 49 Mt per annum by 2030.
Precedence Research
Last updated: 17 May 2026
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