Standardisation as an Accelerator for Green Hydrogen.

Hydrogen innovation drives headlines.
Hydrogen standardisation will enable scale.

The recent perspective from GroenvermogenNL rightly highlights collaboration and open innovation. But if green hydrogen is to become truly cost-competitive, alignment across the value chain is essential.

Standardisation is not a technical detail. It directly impacts cost, bankability and deployment speed. It affects everyone:
👉 End users need clarity on real operational performance.
👉 Suppliers need common definitions to design reliably and provide guarantees.
👉 Researchers need to test against requirements that reflect industrial reality.

Without alignment, we get custom engineering, long lead times and higher risk — all reflected in higher LCOH.

With shared standards, we unlock:
● Common interfaces across balance-of-plant systems
● Unified performance metrics so buyers can compare apples-to-apples
● Verified safety and testing standards that reduce custom engineering overhead
● Repeatable manufacturing and faster deployment
● More predictable and lower LCOH

This is why standardisation is a core focus within the HyPRO programme under GroenvermogenNL — aligning industry and research around shared testing protocols and system definitions that enable industrial scale.

If we close the gap between research and industrial deployment, we don’t just accelerate innovation.

We reduce cost – and accelerate scaling.

🔁 Where do you see the most urgent need for standardisation today?