It’s also time to rethink how subsidies are structured, to reflect the fact some sectors are better bets than others. At present, the federal government’s Hydrogen Headstart program and the hydrogen tax credit are agnostic as to how the hydrogen is used, which does little to help demand emerge in the right places.

I can understand the argument against being too prescriptive, we don’t always know what technologies will come forward over the next few years, a tight subsidy regime could limit the scope, or hamper the development of new applications in hydrogen fueling technologies.