Interdisciplinary Program Office (IPO) Sustainability Seminar Series Fall 2022  - Hydrogen economy in Asia and the Pacific

Konrad Adenauer Foundation’s Regional Project Energy Security and Climate Change Asia-Pacific has commissioned IPSOS to conduct 57 pilot and in-depth expert interviews with experts from each of the nine countries, with a minimum of six interviews in each country. The survey maps the perception of expert insights on the expectations, concerns, and barriers to local hydrogen implementation in nine major countries in Asia-Pacific (APAC) — Australia, China, India, Indonesia, Japan, Malaysia, Singapore, South Korea, and Thailand. The experts generally agree that their country of interest is making progress in advancing hydrogen economy development, with common goals to decarbonise different sectors, reduce energy dependency on fossil fuel imports, and drive domestic economies by creating new job opportunities. Meanwhile, many of the experts perceive that their countries are only at the early stage of hydrogen adoption as the hydrogen economy concept is relatively nascent in APAC, except in Japan. And to effectively drive hydrogen development, the experts believe that official direction from the national level is fundamental, while most APAC hydrogen economies are now stymied by the high cost of clean hydrogen production and lack of infrastructure for transportation and storage.