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What’s next for the IEA? common international standards. As the global
energy organisation that covers all fuels and all
The International Energy Agency will help go- technologies, the IEA will continue to provide ri-
vernments around the world to establish what role gorous analysis and policy advice to support in-
hydrogen can play in their long-term energy strate- ternational co-operation and to conduct effective
gies. The world should seize today’s unpreceden- tracking of progress in the years ahead.
ted opportunity to take advantage of hydrogen’s
vast potential and make it a key part of our sustai- While this publication is a milestone for IEA work
nable energy future. amidst resurgent interest and sometimes conflic-
International co-operation is vital to accelerate the ting information on hydrogen, it is just one element
growth of versatile, clean hydrogen around the in IEA’s hydrogen portfolio. The IEA hydrogen web
world. If governments work to scale up hydrogen in pages also include downloadable databases on
a co-ordinated way, it can help to spur investments hydrogen policies and projects, as well as interacti-
in factories and infrastructure that will bring down ve charts. They will soon provide a knowledge hub
costs and enable the sharing of knowledge and for the recently launched Clean Energy Ministerial
best practices. Trade in hydrogen will benefit from Initiative on Hydrogen.

Dr Simon Bennett

Dr Simon Bennett is an analyst in the International Energy Agency’s Sustainable Technology and Outlooks
Directorate, where he co-leads work on energy technology innovation policy and investment. In 2019, he
was a lead author of the IEA report The Future of Hydrogen. He joined the IEA in 2012 from the European
Commission’s Directorate-General for Energy, where he was responsible for carbon capture and storage
(CCS) projects and policy, as well as Smart Cities innovation and policy development.
He holds a Ph.D. in Energy Policy from Imperial College London and Master’s degrees in Environmental
Technology and Chemistry.

La rinascita dell’idrogeno

Nel 2019, la IEA - Agenzia internazionale per l’energia ha lanciato un nuovo rapporto sull’idrogeno e
sull’energia a margine della riunione ministeriale del G20 sulle transizioni energetiche, la difesa dell’ ambiente
globale e per la crescita sostenibile, a Karuizawa, in Giappone. Il ‘Futuro dell’idrogeno’ offre una panoramica
accessibile dello stato dell’arte dell’ idrogeno e dei suoi molteplici ruoli in un sistema energetico futuro
sostenibile e resiliente. Ventitré analisti della IEA provenienti dall’ intera e vasta gamma di competenze dell’
Agenzia - mercati petroliferi, produzione di energia, edifici, trasporti, uso dell’ energia nell’ industria, energie
rinnovabili, CCUS, gas naturale - hanno lavorato insieme per coprire tutte le domande sul tema.
Sulla base dei contributi dai gruppi di lavoro, di un gruppo di consulenti di alto livello e di 3 500 commenti
da chi ha rivisto la bozza del documento, alla fine il rapporto fornisce raccomandazioni ai governi per agire in
cinque settori specifici. Soprattutto, identifica quattro opportunità chiave per aumentare l’ utilizzo dell’idrogeno
nel prossimo decennio.

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