In the UK, the Heriot-Watt University noted that hydrogen transport infrastructure is developing at half the pace of other clean technologies, creating a bottleneck that could put billions in clean energy investment at risk.
A recent study from Edinburgh Business School at Heriot-Watt University found that while hydrogen production, storage and fuel cell technologies are advancing rapidly, hydrogen distribution infrastructure is developing at half the speed, creating a critical bottleneck that could put billions in clean energy at risk.
“Most distribution infrastructure sits with a handful of major companies. They tend to share less knowledge than innovators in other hydrogen fields,” said David Dekker, Research Fellow, Edinburgh Business School at Heriot-Watt University.
The research team analyzed 777,000 patents and 1.3 million citations spanning 182 years of hydrogen technology development, revealing clear differences in progress across the system.
Dimitris Christopoulos, Director of Research at Edinburgh Business School and Heriot-Watt University’s School of Social Sciences, who co-authored the findings, said: “We cannot have a hydrogen economy without the infrastructure to move it around. Right now, that is the fundamental missing piece.”
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