The use of hydrogen is on the rise. There are already cabs, buses, trains, machines, trucks and passenger cars running on hydrogen in the Netherlands. You can also use it to sail, heat, produce or store energy. Is green hydrogen also the solution for your business? In this article you will read how hydrogen can replace regular fuel and what opportunities the gas offers for SMEs.

Green hydrogen plays an important role in the energy transition. Not only because you can use hydrogen as a CO2-free fuel, but also because hydrogen can be sustainably converted into gas, for heating for example. In this way, hydrogen helps meet the goals in the Climate Agreement, such as reducing our CO2 emissions.

What is green hydrogen?

In short, hydrogen (H2) is the most abundant element on Earth. You can use it like we use natural gas today, for example. Hydrogen is colorless, odorless, non-toxic, and contains no carbon. There are different types of hydrogen. Gray hydrogen is the least sustainable because it emits a lot of CO2 in the manufacturing process. When producing blue hydrogen, things are a little better, because there the emitted CO2 is captured and stored. But when producing green hydrogen, no CO2 is released at all. That makes green hydrogen a clean energy carrier.

Government encourages green hydrogen

The Dutch government is encouraging the production and use of green hydrogen. Among other things, the government has agreed in the Climate Accord that the Netherlands will have 50 hydrogen refueling stations by 2025 and that we will produce enough hydrogen to run 600,000 hydrogen cars for an entire year, for example.

More information?

Using the button below, read the entire article from the Chamber of Commerce with information therein:

• The use of hydrogen
• Heating with hydrogen
• Green hydrogen as a fuel
• Hydrogen or electric?
• Getting started with hydrogen