{"id":229322,"date":"2026-01-19T13:04:34","date_gmt":"2026-01-19T19:04:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/01\/bottleneck-in-hydrogen-distribution-jeopardizes-billions-in-clean-energy"},"modified":"2026-01-19T13:04:34","modified_gmt":"2026-01-19T19:04:34","slug":"bottleneck-in-hydrogen-distribution-jeopardizes-billions-in-clean-energy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/01\/bottleneck-in-hydrogen-distribution-jeopardizes-billions-in-clean-energy","title":{"rendered":"Bottleneck in hydrogen distribution jeopardizes billions in clean energy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/bottleneck-in-hydrogen-distribution-jeopardizes-billions-in-clean-energy2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A study from Edinburgh Business School at Heriot-Watt University found that while hydrogen production, storage and fuel cell technologies are advancing rapidly, the hydrogen distribution infrastructure is developing at half the speed, creating a critical bottleneck that could put billions in clean energy at risk.<\/p>\n<p>The paper \u201cDynamics of knowledge production: A relational-event analysis of patent citation hazards in hydrogen technologies\u201d was published in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencedirect.com\/science\/article\/pii\/S2666188825010214\" target=\"_blank\"><i>Sustainable Futures<\/i><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The findings are an important milestone in recognizing that, while other hydrogen technologies improve and costs fall, <a href=\"https:\/\/techxplore.com\/news\/2022-09-green-hydrogen-countries-problems.html?utm_source=embeddings&utm_medium=related&utm_campaign=internal\" rel=\"related\">distribution expenses<\/a> could take up a large share of hydrogen system budgets, significantly limiting overall efficiency and growth of the hydrogen sector.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A study from Edinburgh Business School at Heriot-Watt University found that while hydrogen production, storage and fuel cell technologies are advancing rapidly, the hydrogen distribution infrastructure is developing at half the speed, creating a critical bottleneck that could put billions in clean energy at risk. The paper \u201cDynamics of knowledge production: A relational-event analysis of [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43,1497],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-229322","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business","category-energy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229322","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=229322"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229322\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=229322"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=229322"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=229322"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}