Industrial hydrogen makes progress but cost and carbon questions remain

Despite industry-wide setbacks and recalibration, large-scale industrial hydrogen has made impressive steps to becoming a commercial reality in recent months.

From Europe to southern Africa, change is firmly underway.

Germany’s largest PEM electrolyser has just gone into operation at BASF’s Ludwigshafen site. The electrolyser has a connected load of 54MW and capacity to supply the main plant with up to one metric tonne of this substantial chemical feedstock every hour.

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