The International Energy Agency (IEA) has recently published a report on China’s hydrogen economy together with the Economy and Technology Research Institute of China National Petroleum Corporation (CNPC).
The Chinese version of the report, titled The future of hydrogen: Capturing the opportunity today, points out that hydrogen as a clean future energy is presenting an unprecedented political and commercial development opportunity, with major economies like China, Japan, the US and EU introducing many hydrogen development policies and projects.
“Now is the important period for the hydrogen industry to expand the scale of technology and lower the cost so that hydrogen can be promoted extensively,” it says.
Nevertheless, the report also notes that, amidst this favourable outlook, there are challenges that the development of the hydrogen industry is facing at the present – including the high cost of hydrogen production, the slow development of infrastructure, the carbon emissions of hydrogen production from fossil energies, and a lack of relevant laws and regulations.
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