Green hydrogen will be crucial for decarbonising heavy industries
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Hydrogen is often described as the champagne of green energy – scarce and expensive, to be deployed only on special occasions.
But there are huge swathes of the global economy that will need hydrogen fuel in order to decarbonise, from aviation and shipping to steelmaking, fertiliser production and industrial heating.
