HYDROGEN REPORT: TURNING AMBITION INTO DELIVERY

Building an investable hydrogen value chain in Scotland

Published in 2023, the Addleshaw Goddard & Equitix hydrogen report remains strikingly relevant as the core challenges and opportunities it identified have only intensified. 

The report’s focus on scaling low‑carbon hydrogen production, aligning supply with emerging demand, and overcoming infrastructure, regulatory and investment barriers continues to mirror today’s policy and market landscape, where governments and industry are still working to close persistent strategy and funding gaps. 

Its insights - drawn from producers, investors and policymakers – highlighted foundational issues, from planning and grid constraints to the need for clear business models and coordinated action, and these remain central to unlocking a viable hydrogen economy. 

The global opportunity. Scotland's unique position

In recent years Scotland has been playing an increasingly active role in exploring the potential for low-carbon hydrogen with more than 60 pilot and demonstration projects underway, from the world’s first hydrogen powered double-deckers being used on the roads of Aberdeen to the first tidal-powered hydrogen electrolyser in Orkney.