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Conferences can be boring. The same people saying the things year after year, executives taking the stage in order to promote their own companies rather than because they have something interesting or important to say.
Last week’s Green Hydrogen Global Assembly in Barcelona felt different. This conference had an attitude, a swagger, a purpose. This conference aimed to change the world. It introduced an industry-agreed Green Hydrogen Standard that set a strict definition for what can be labelled as ‘green hydrogen’, along with an independent certification process to back it up — potentially a key turning point in the commercialisation of renewable H2.
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