Hydrogen in the UK: Future Promise or Missed Opportunity?

Hydrogen has been positioned as a key pillar of the UK energy transition, particularly for industrial decarbonisation and system flexibility. It appears repeatedly in strategy documents, policy announcements and long-term system modelling.

But despite years of focus, progress has been slow, costs remain high, and investor confidence is increasingly fragile. The question is no longer what hydrogen could do — but whether the UK will actually deliver.