Green Hydrogen
Green hydrogen is important for a number of reasons. Firstly, it offers an important long-term alternative to oil and natural gas. However, unlike oil and gas, the fact that it can be generated from renewable energy means it won't run out! In the long-term, Scotland has the opportunity to use its considerable renewable energy resources (wind, wave and tidal energy) to generate 'green hydrogen' and to limit the oil and gas that it has to import from countries like Russia, Iran and Iraq. As our own North Sea reserves decline further, this will become even more important.
Secondly, the use of 'green hydrogen' does not produce carbon dioxide (one of the main contributors to climate change). It therefore has an important role to play if the UK is to achieve its ambitious carbon dioxide reduction targets. In fact, when used in a fuel cell, the only emission produced is water so pure that you can drink it! (Astronauts already do this.)
Increasingly, governments are recognising that hydrogen will be very important to our future; some even believe it will be as important as oil and gas are to us today.