January 24, 2023Hydrogen is expected to grow sevenfold to support the global energy transition, eventually accounting for 10 percent of total energy by 2050.
A scale-up of this magnitude will affect demand for critical materials, including minerals and metals, needed for hydrogen technologies— electrolyzers for renewable hydrogen, carbon storage for clean hydrogen, or fuel cells using hydrogen to power transport.
In December 2022, the Hydrogen Council and the World Bank launched the global report Sufficiency, sustainability, and circularity of critical materials for clean hydrogen, which uses new data to estimate the amount and overall footprint of critical minerals needed to scale up clean hydrogen.
Drawing on this research, the Hydrogen Council and the World Bank will together host an online event on January 31, 2023. Speakers will address the following overarching…