Australia needs to build an end-to-end hydrogen ecosystem across the nation serving multiple hard to abate use-cases in order to meet our 2050 decarbonisation commitments. Avoiding a monopoly trap is key. The lack of advanced manufacturing of hydrogen at scale is currently hindering Australia’s ability to keep pace with global peers like the UK, which is rapidly deploying long-term hydrogen strategies across several industry verticals, including transport and aviation. Even the United States, a late starter in this area, has earmarked hundreds of billions of dollars to overhaul production, storage, and distribution of hydrogen. "Australia currently has no granular plan to match the UK or US," Rux Energy founder and chief executive Dr Jehan Kanga told the Commercial Disco podcast. The conversation also featured Rux Energy’s ecosystem and communications manager Nicolle Lane.