GlobalRiskInsights.com provides the web’s best political risk analysis for businesses and investors. Our contributors are some of the brightest minds in economics, politics, finance, and… Putin’s invasion of Ukraine has once again highlighted Europe’s dependency on Russian energy. Hydrogen is quickly emerging as one of the missing pieces of the clean energy puzzle. The European Commission is calling for a quadrupling of hydrogen use within the next decade. While reinforced by recent events, the push to scale-up clean hydrogen energy has been underway by governments, energy suppliers, and environmentalists alike in recent years. In January 2022, the International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA) released their anticipated report, “ Geopolitics of the Energy Transformation: The Hydrogen Facto r,” anointing it as the “missing piece of the clean energy puzzle,” and making clear the broader implications of this transition for geopolitics and the global economy. IRENA purports that by 2050 the emergence […]