RMI – Four Ways to Jump-Start Clean Hydrogen Finance in 2025
An information gap is slowing the nascent market for high impact industrial decarbonization projects. To begin bridging this gap, RMI’s Industrial Transition Finance team initially focused on the emerging clean hydrogen market, recently completing its “hydrogen project finance roadshow” as part of the RMI and Mission Possible Partnership’s (MPP) Clean Industrial Hubs program. This initiative shared consolidated insights from a dozen leading financial institutions (FIs) with a dozen US hydrogen developers to foster knowledge exchange and pave the way for efficient market growth.
RMI and MPP’s Hubs program brings together financial institutions, policymakers, project developers, and community-based organizations to enable groundbreaking decarbonization projects in the hardest-to-abate sectors. This work is done in partnership with the Bezos Earth Fund.
This article summarizes hydrogen developers’ questions and responses to the investor community during a series of roundtables. The roadshow highlighted five major gaps between developers and FIs – and four potential market developments that, together, could close them:
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