Asia Pacific: hydrogen as an alternative fuel - policy and market updates for 2021

Hydrogen, renewable or semi-renewable, has emerged as the hot topic of discussions on decarbonizing the transportation sector around the globe. This report discusses national policies promoting hydrogen and its current market.

We focus on the plans of Asia Pacific countries to use hydrogen in the transportation sector. Earlier reports on hydrogen development in Europe, in Latin America, and general information about hydrogen and its current main purposes are available on the SGS INSPIRE website.

Asia Pacific is a very diverse region. Countries are at very different stages of energy production. Coal still accounts for the majority of electricity production in this region. Nevertheless, coun