Shipping is looking for low-emission engines for large cargo vessels. Japan Engine Corporation completed land-based testing of the 6UEC35LSGH, an engine running on more than 95% hydrogen at full load with a small share of diesel for ignition.
China's Houpu completed delivery of a 35 MPa integrated hydrogen refuelling platform to Portugal in September 2026, according to a post by Klaus Steven, which also cites a skid-type station in Malaysia and compliance with standards required in Spain.
Hyundai Motor Group presented at World Hydrogen Expo 2026, in South Korea, a 5 MW PEM electrolyser module with 12 stacks, the size of a 40-foot container.
The Australian Renewable Energy Agency, ARENA, will provide 15 million dollars to Hadean Energy for a pilot hydrogen plant in Victoria, according to ESD News on 5/11/2026.
Green hydrogen depends on electrolysers, almost always of an established architecture. Evo Hydrogen, in a post by Marcelo Bezerra, proposes an electrolysis it calls resonant, without membranes, with tubular modules and Brazilian suppliers.
Japan Suiso Energy (JSE) and JFE Engineering announced on 13 July 2026 the EPC contract for Japan's first high-pressure hydrogen pipeline, about 4 km in Kawasaki, under NEDO's Green Innovation Fund. According to Ashraf Abdel Haleem, expected operation is 6 to 7 MPa in a 600 mm pipe.
China produced more than 39 million tonnes of hydrogen in 2025, and about 85% went to methanol, ammonia, refining and coal chemicals, according to an article by Dr. Wang Zhiqiang. By his figures, 59% came from coal, and operating renewable capacity was barely above 250,000 t a year.
European and Chinese electrolyser makers usually sit on opposite sides of the hydrogen supply chain debate. Estonia's Elcogen has signed a memorandum of understanding with China's Hygreen Energy to explore new applications and markets for its solid-oxide technology, according to Hydrogen Insight on…
Hydrogen Insight reports that Terra Clove, Eastern Pacific Shipping's dual-fuel vessel, was bunkered with ammonia from Envision Energy's Chifeng project, which the outlet describes as 500 MW, and presents it as the first ammonia-fuelled Very Large Ammonia Carrier.
Evo Hydrogen, in a post by Marcelo Bezerra, says it is developing Brazilian electrolysis, which it calls resonant, with its own modular architecture for industry. The performance is the company's claim; the public policy framework comes from an independent source.
In February 2026, Envision made its first commercial green ammonia shipment, from Chifeng, China, to LOTTE Fine Chemical at Ulsan, South Korea.
Sultan Haitham bin Tarik began a two-day state visit to China. The Oman Observer, reposted by Klaus Steven, reads the trip through hydrogen: it cites Chinese incentives of up to 8 billion yuan for five city clusters and sees room for Chinese investment in low-emission steel and chemicals in Oman.
Spherical Insights, in a piece reposted by Klaus Steven, places BHP, Rio Tinto, SSAB and LKAB in the race for low-emission iron and steel and notes that the EU CBAM entered its definitive phase on 1 January 2026, with iron and steel among the covered products.
Hydrogen has spare factory capacity. Christoph Börger, founder of the eSAF Alliance, cites a report by Magnus Schwarz in ingenieur.de on the Hamburg expo: about 58 GW a year of electrolyser manufacturing capacity worldwide and under 5 GW delivered in 2025, chlor-alkali included.
Ashraf Abdel Haleem, a green hydrogen and electrolysis specialist working with Japan, maps the chain beyond the electrolyser: renewable power, electrolysis, purification, compression, storage, transport and end use, with forecasting, digital control and automation across every link.
Membraneless electrolysers are back in the debate in Brazilian hydrogen engineering. In a post by Marcelo Bezerra, Evo Hydrogen and Hidrox present resonant electrolysis in a tubular structure, with gas separation through physical configuration and electronic control per module.
Klaus Steven reposted Indian government data, released on 29 October, showing that Indian companies hold firm offtake contracts for 555,610 tonnes a year of green hydrogen equivalent, the largest volume worldwide, with 18 deals in 2026 alone.
Christoph Börger, founder of the eSAF Alliance, sees a new market for hydrogen engines next to the electrolyser. In synthetic fuel plants, H2 gensets could keep controls, safety systems and cooling running during an outage.
Toyota has installed two mobile hydrogen fuelers at its North American Parts Center California, its largest US parts distribution facility. Heavy-duty trucks refuel in about eight minutes for a range of up to 450 miles. A permanent station is planned at the same site.
New Zealand is testing a setup that brings wind, fertiliser and fuel together at one grid point. At Kapuni, Taranaki, four Vestas V162-6.4 MW turbines will supply the Ballance plant and a local 5 MW electrolyser producing up to two tonnes of green hydrogen per day, and export the surplus to the…
Shenhai Hydrogen Energy No. 1 has moved from the shipyard to testing. Launched on 13 October in Jiangmen, Guangdong, by CIMC Raffles, which presents it as the world's first semi-submersible platform producing hydrogen from wind, it has already completed onshore commissioning of its process systems.
China's Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, Ministry of Finance and National Development and Reform Commission have launched four-year hydrogen pilots in five city clusters. Each can receive up to 1.6 billion yuan from the central government, depending on assessment, according to CGTN.
Oman's first commercial green ammonia project, ACME's plant in Duqm, was visited by the state audit body. The first phase, worth about US$750 million, targets 100,000 tonnes of ammonia per year, around 450 MWac of solar and 800 MWh of batteries, with operations expected in the coming months,…
Lufthansa Technik researchers published in Frontiers in Mechanical Engineering, on 26 October 2026, a thermodynamic analysis of retrofitting the A320 auxiliary power unit, the APS3200, to burn hydrogen. Flow is about 0.016 kg/s, against 0.0412 kg/s of kerosene.
Compared with undoped titanium oxide, nitrogen-doped nanowires produced 2.2 times more hydrogen by photocatalysis, according to a study by Wellia and co-authors in the Journal of Materials Science. The best sample, with the lowest dopant loading, reached 2.6 µmol per square centimeter.
Maersk Tankers' RIPPLE project has been selected by the EU Innovation Fund to convert four very large ammonia carriers, VLACs, with dual-fuel engines able to burn their own cargo. According to Marine Insight, the goal is to avoid more than 1.2 million t of CO2e over ten years.
One of the bottlenecks for hydrogen at sea is refuelling. Anderson Correia, president of IPT, has publicised JAQ H2, a 50-metre vessel planned for 2027 that will desalinate seawater and produce hydrogen on board, a project by Grupo Náutica with GWM Hydrogen, IPT and Itaipu Parquetec.
Natural hydrogen accumulates underground, without electrolysis. JERA, Japan's largest power generator, has invested in Koloma, a Denver startup exploring this resource, through JERA Ventures, an arm with US$300 million in capacity. The amount was not disclosed.
Estonia's Stargate Hydrogen announced on October 14 the commercial availability of STARDUST, a ceramic electrode coating that, according to the company, brings its alkaline stacks to 48 kWh per kilogram of hydrogen, with no iridium or other platinum-group metals. It ships in stacks up to 0.5 MW;
Natural hydrogen is still an exploration frontier, with no commercial-scale resource established. JERA, Japan's largest power generator, invested in Denver-based Koloma through JERA Ventures, an arm with USD 300 million of capacity. The amount was not disclosed.
GalpH2Park, in Sines, had been measured by installed capacity. The publication adds another layer: Siemens will deploy its Hydrogen Performance Suite at the project, with a predictive digital twin fed by data from the facility and from energy markets, which, according to the company, can deliver…
The Andalusian Green Hydrogen Valley had been treated as an announced project. The repost records a different stage: Moeve has launched the $1.2-billion first phase, within a $3.3-billion effort aiming at 2 GW of combined electrolysis and up to 300,000 tonnes of green hydrogen a year, according to…
Hydrogen embrittlement is why steel fit for natural gas is not always fit for hydrogen. A study from South China University of Technology, in the Journal of Materials Science, describes how to contain the effect in austenitic stainless steels: precipitates at grain boundaries block diffusion, with…
Roy Allegra, of RA Energy, shared Oregon State University's announcement of BVR-19, a material that produces hydrogen in a light-driven reaction. According to the announcement, it needs no platinum-group co-catalyst and forms in water at room temperature.
PowerCell Group has received a follow-up order from GMI Group worth SEK 27 million for ten Marine System 225 units, for two more hydrogen-electric bulk carriers of 3,000 deadweight tonnes each. The order covers more than 2 MW, with deliveries in 2027 and 2028.
Klaus Steven reposts that Eneos, Japan's largest oil refiner, will put US$132 million into a two-year demonstration in Brisbane from fiscal 2026, converting hydrogen into methylcyclohexane for export.
Hydrogen Technology World Expo marks World Hydrogen Day on 8 October, a date taken from hydrogen's relative atomic mass of 1.008, and announces Hamburg, 20 to 22 October, with more than 1,000 exhibitors and more than 200 speakers.
The post argues that China already has a hydrogen economy and that the transition is about restructuring it: more than 51 million tonnes of annual capacity and more than 39 million of actual output, against just above 250,000 tonnes of renewable hydrogen in operation, and more than 33 million…
Until now Spain's hydrogen backbone existed as planning. On 30 September 2026 MITECO opened the permitting process for the first four pipelines, 234 km and about EUR 389 million, under the urgency procedure, at the request of the developers of three electrolysers: Onuba in Huelva, 300 MW, Catalina…
The membrane separates hydrogen and oxygen inside an electrolyser. The video presents the research of physicist Santino Loruan, of the Federal University of Ceará, who developed a chitosan membrane, extracted from shrimp shells, as an alternative to nafion, which is imported and more expensive.
Siemens will supply operating software for GalpH2Park, Galp's 100 MW electrolysis unit in Sines, Portugal. The 8 October 2026 announcement cites the Hydrogen Performance Suite, built on a digital process twin, and estimates up to 15% energy savings.
Koloma Inc., a natural hydrogen company, is seeking two more service contracts in the Philippines after initial survey results, according to Energy Secretary Sharon Garin on 8 October 2026. The firm already holds contracts awarded in October 2025 and signed Service Contract No.
A year ago Europe's hydrogen debate turned on targets; now it turns on transposition. Hydrogen Europe has set its H2Talk launching the Clean Hydrogen Monitor 2026 for 14 October, and says several Member States have now written RED III transport targets into national law, giving investment signals…
A standalone hydrogen project struggles to match supply and demand within the same territory. Four Nordic valleys, CONVEY, BalticSeaH2, H2 Valley Sweden and NORHyWAY, have built a joint pavilion at booth A12 of European Hydrogen Week in Brussels, 26 to 30 October.
Hydrogen trade fairs have stopped being prototype showcases and become meeting points between research and buyers. Hydrogen Europe Research is taking its own space at European Hydrogen Week 2026 at Brussels Expo, exhibiting from 26 to 28 October with 14 of its members, among them the German…
A hydrogen import strategy assumes somewhere to keep what arrives outside peak demand. Ashraf Abdel Haleem's post describes Japan's position: limited salt-cavern potential, unlike Germany, the Netherlands and the UK, with depleted gas reservoirs under assessment for seasonal storage and fields in…
Dr. Wang Zhiqiang argues that installed hydrogen production capacity is not the same as actual production, and that the industry will be measured by operating hours, utilisation, efficiency degradation, hydrogen cost and, ultimately, whether stable demand exists.
The reposted material lists six priorities for hydrogen development in Vietnam and argues the strategy should not be measured only by tonnes produced, but by the economic, industrial and environmental value created within the energy system.
Within a single year Iowa went from having no dedicated rules to having a subsurface extraction framework. In that new setting, Snowfox Discovery, backed by bp Ventures and Rio Tinto, has secured more than 10,000 acres of natural hydrogen exploration leases in the state.
The tanker Kikou Maru, around 105 metres long, completed a hydrogen-fuelled demonstration voyage in Osaka Bay.
The Renewable Hydrogen Coalition reports that more than 170 companies and industry stakeholders across Europe's energy value chain signed a letter to Ursula von der Leyen, Teresa Ribera and Dan Jørgensen asking the European Commission to keep binding RFNBO targets for transport and industry beyond…
The industry usually asks governments for bigger subsidies and higher targets. At a hydrogen forum in Seoul last week, Hyundai Motor Group Executive Vice President Shin Seung-kyu asked for something else: 10 to 20 years of consistent policy.
On 29 September 2026 the Danish government and four parties in the Folketing agreed to raise operating support for Danish Hydrogen Backbone 1 from DKK 10.9 billion to DKK 16.5 billion.
Germany has opened its third funding call for international renewable hydrogen and derivative projects, with up to EUR 30 million per project. Project outlines are due by 17 December 2026 and execution must be completed by 2030.
The Lady Crystal, the sightseeing vessel operating in Tokyo's Tennoz Isle area, is being replaced. In a release dated 15 June 2026, NYK Line said the new dining cruise ship enters service in 2027 with a hydrogen fuel cell system designed by Yanmar Power Solutions, storage modules supplied by Toyota…
A post by Ashraf Abdel Haleem, PhD, summarises the Japan chapter of the Hydrogen Council's Global Hydrogen Compass 2026: up to 3 Mt of hydrogen a year by 2030, around 20 Mt by 2050 and a public-private roadmap of about US$38 billion through FY2040.
Europe's electrolyser market is now taking Chinese supply at scale. According to a post by Girija J, Sungrow Hydrogen will supply a 21 MW PEM system to Promet-Plast's project in Gaj Olawski, Poland, paired with 49.36 MW of solar and wind, an expected 1,700 tonnes of RFNBO hydrogen a year and…
Hemanth Chintala is circulating a sample market report projecting US$168.37 billion for green hydrogen by 2035, citing global demand above 100 Mt in 2025 and installed electrolysis capacity above 4 GW. The post is a commercial call for the full study.
Maruti Suzuki has commissioned a 300 kW green hydrogen plant at Manesar, in the Indian state of Haryana. According to a post by Girija J, the electrolyser runs on surplus solar generated on site during non-working days, and the hydrogen is blended with natural gas as process fuel.
The post offers a PDF guide on the green hydrogen market, with an invitation to download a sample. It describes production by electrolysis powered by renewables and promises global and regional coverage. It is promotional material, so the market picture here comes from an independent source.
Dr. Wang Zhiqiang's article "Brazil's Hydrogen Opportunity May Begin with Ethanol" (9 September 2026) proposes ethanol be treated not only as a transport fuel but as a renewable energy carrier reaching where hydrogen is consumed.
A few years ago hydrogen was sold as a universal fix; now part of the same audience declares it a failure. Christoph Börger's post rejects both extremes and moves the question: not whether H2 grows, but where.
EnergyPathways said it has signed an agreement with Finland's Hycamite to assess methane pyrolysis for the MESH project at Barrow.
A comparative review of seawater-to-hydrogen routes challenges the most repeated assumption in the field: that the gain will come from removing desalination and electrolysing seawater directly.
The African Development Bank announced, at the Africa Green Hydrogen Summit 2026 in Cape Town, four projects selected for reimbursable grants totalling USD 20 million: Project Ra (Egypt), Guelmim Green Hydrogen Valley (Morocco), Hyphen (Namibia) and Saldanha Hydrogen DRI (South Africa).
The Michigan Infrastructure Office announced USD 7.5 million, through the Make It in Michigan Competitiveness Fund, for exploration, research and development of geologic hydrogen.
New tranche of French support for hydrogen, read from the European Commission announcement that authorised the scheme.
Until now, buying low-emission steel meant buying the steel. On 17 September 2026 Google announced a different kind of contract: it will receive environmental attribute certificates (EACs) covering up to 91,000 tonnes of the steel produced in the first year of Stegra's plant in Boden, Sweden, which…
Primary Hydrogen Corp. staked 313 contiguous single-cell mining claims, about 65 km², in the Thunder Bay Mining District of northwestern Ontario, adjoining the Seagull property, where a joint venture is drilling for natural hydrogen and helium. The announcement is dated August 24, 2026.
Hive Hydrogen South Africa announced on September 15, 2026 the award of the FEED contract, worth USD 9 million, to Spain's Técnicas Reunidas, for the USD 5.8 billion green ammonia project at Coega, with capacity of one million tonnes a year and 2,930 MW of its own wind and solar.
The reposted material is a market guide on electrolysers, offered as a download, describing the technology as essential to the green hydrogen value chain and pointing to growth driven by industrial adoption, mobility and supportive policy, with estimates for 2025 and projections for 2031.
A consortium led by CSIR-IMMT will develop India's first direct reduced iron plant running entirely on hydrogen: a 20-tonne-per-day pilot, budgeted at 207 crore rupees, with 113 crore in public support and completion expected by August 2029.
Seawater electrolysis has always run into the need to desalinate first. The reposted publication presents a direct route, with hydrazine-assisted electrolysis and a palladium and nickel hydroxide catalyst, described as a sustainable path to large-scale green hydrogen production.
Namibia's 40 MW green ammonia project has secured up to 3.6 million dollars. The facility is designed to produce up to 20,000 tonnes of green ammonia and 80,000 tonnes of ammonium sulphate a year, with 60 MW of solar, 10 MW of wind and a 65 MWh battery system powering 40 MW of electrolysis.
Natural hydrogen has moved from modelled estimate to field measurement. On 21 August 2026 OilPrice.com reported samples in China's Sichuan Basin with purity between 97.33% and 98.24% and a projected cost below USD 1 per kilogram, against USD 3.50 to 6.00 for green hydrogen, with the Chinese and…
The benchmark for scale in green hydrogen today is the electrolytic route: thyssenkrupp nucera is supplying 300 MW in 15 modules of 20 MW to Moeve's Onuba project in Andalusia, for around 45,000 tonnes per year.
Ulsan Customs reported on 18 August 2026 that LNG imports through the port went from none up to 2023 to 420,000 tonnes in 2024, the year the dedicated terminal started up, 1.53 million tonnes in 2025 and 1.1 million tonnes in the first seven months of 2026.
Until recently natural hydrogen was a subject for geological papers, with no dedicated wells. The material reposted by Klaus Steven records exploratory drilling under way at the same time in Australia, Canada and the United States, with Canada's Max Power Mining starting a third validation well, at…
Revenue rankings are usually read as a map of technology leadership. In the 2026 list of hydrogen technology companies published by Mahesh Koshti, of For Insights Consultancy, the top three are industrial gas companies, with Air Liquide, Linde and Air Products at roughly US$5.8, 5.3 and 4.8…
LuxHyVal announced it will present the Luxembourg Hydrogen Valley project at European Hydrogen Week 2026 in Brussels, from 26 to 30 October. According to the post, the booth will show its roadmap for green hydrogen production and integration in Luxembourg.
The Rolls-Royce hydrogen programme, announced with easyJet in 2022 and until then confined to ground testing, has completed a fully simulated flight cycle with an aero gas turbine running on 100% hydrogen, covering take-off, cruise and landing.
Ballard Power Systems announced on 30 August 2026 the completion of its acquisition of GeoPura for 275 million pounds, of which 82.5 million in cash and the remainder in 49,584,212 newly issued shares, plus 27.5 million contingent on post-closing milestones.
Until recently, producing hydrogen at the point of use was an industrial exception. Analyst Mahendra Patil published a PDF guide presenting on-site generators as a way to cut transport costs and emissions, with on-demand production from water, natural gas, coal or biomass.
Low emissions hydrogen advances faster in announcements than in the chain that produces it. According to a report by the Abu Dhabi Chamber of Commerce and Industry, dated June 2026, the emirate targets 1.4 million tonnes a year of low carbon hydrogen by 2031 and estimates around AED 2.3 billion of…
White Martins' green hydrogen plant in Jacareí (SP) has five MW of electrolysis, produces around 800 tonnes a year on a commercial basis and started operating in December 2025.
ACWA Power said the Neom green hydrogen complex in Saudi Arabia has completed construction and starts commercial operation in 2027, with USD 8.5 billion invested.
Brazil's green hydrogen potential returns to official discourse in the same terms as in previous years. What has changed is the state of the incentive: in a speech on 22 August 2026 published by Poder360 and reposted by ABIHV, President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva cited wind, solar and green hydrogen…
Green hydrogen projects in Africa had been stalling at the announcement stage. On 20 August 2026, ESI Africa reported the start of operation of CMB.TECH's plant in Walvis Bay, Namibia: 5 MWp of solar, a 5 MW PEM electrolyser and a 5.9 MWh battery, isolated from the grid.
SunHydrogen reported that its modules exceeded 10% solar-to-hydrogen efficiency in tests with Australia's Sparc Hydrogen. The two signed a 24-month collaboration and intend to take the trials to the SHARP pilot, in Roseworthy, Australia.
The European Union wants to import 10 million tonnes of renewable hydrogen by 2030 under REPowerEU. A study published in the journal Sustainability, by researchers at Girne American University, mapped 26 bilateral green hydrogen agreements signed between 2020 and 2024: half are memoranda of…
Hydrogen refuelling for heavy trucks still depends on a few fixed points and on lengthy civil works. Hyroad Energy opened in Southern California a station built on a mobile unit, with a liquid hydrogen system supplied by Taylor-Wharton, combining a 1,000-kilogram tank, pump, dispenser and controls…
Ting Zhao circulated a market report on grey hydrogen projecting growth from USD 232.8 billion in 2024 to USD 416.5 billion by 2034, around 6% a year, produced from natural gas by steam methane reforming without carbon capture, for refining, ammonia, methanol and chemicals.
After years focused on oil and gas, PXP Energy Corp. of the Philippines has begun seeking foreign partners to finance and carry out energy exploration projects in the country, including the search for naturally occurring hydrogen, according to an article reposted in August 2026.
Rail transport is one of the few uses of low-emission hydrogen with predictable demand. The publication reports that Indian Railways is evaluating cheaper green hydrogen to expand train operations, with a national target of 5 million tonnes a year by 2030.
Until August 2026, the legal framework for low-emission hydrogen had a law but no institutional design. The publication records that the regulation organised this architecture, defining who regulates and who certifies, and points out that a timing question remains without a rule.
Public purchase programmes have been the main instrument for bringing hydrogen heavy vehicles into Europe. The state of Bavaria opened a programme that subsidises the purchase of hydrogen commercial vehicles by up to 300,000 euros per vehicle, with bands by category and applications open until 28…
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Membraneless electrolysers are a research line that seeks to simplify the cell. Safe gas separation, purity, pressure and durability still have to be demonstrated in each architecture. The difference between a technical proposal, a laboratory prototype and an industrial solution.
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Announced kilometres of hydrogen pipeline do not prove available transport; the market depends on committed capital, consumers and operation.
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Passo Fundo formalized with Begreen and the University of Passo Fundo Foundation the conditions to set up a green ammonia hub on the university campus.
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tesa contracted EWE to supply 500 tonnes a year of renewable hydrogen to its Hamburg plant, starting in 2028.
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Shrimp shells can supply raw material for a membrane used in hydrogen production. In this Extra, research from the Federal University of Ceará.
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Shipping ammonia does not close the hydrogen bill. When the customer needs hydrogen at the destination, conversion, energy, purity and availability enter the cost.
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Growing in stages can reduce the capital committed at the start. But a modular green ammonia plant still has to demonstrate flexibility, utilization and cost per tonne.
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Announced demand is not bankable revenue: volume, term, price, credit and logistics have to fit together.
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A production premium can narrow a revenue gap; it is not an offtake and does not make a Brazilian project automatically eligible.
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Google and Stegra announced an agreement for environmental attribute certificates associated with steel.
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Global electrolysis capacity passed 4 GW, but new final investment decisions fell back and the project pipeline shrank.
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France announced a new round of support for decarbonized hydrogen, with 1.2 billion euros over fifteen years.
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A green hydrogen plant can combine solar power, batteries, an electrolyser and a captive customer and still fail to prove that the numbers work.