Hydrogen and Derivatives Consulting
Empowering confident, data-driven decisions across the entire hydrogen value chain—from production to end use.
Hydrogen and Derivatives Consulting
Empowering confident, data-driven decisions across the entire hydrogen value chain—from production to end use.
Navigate the complex hydrogen and derivatives market opportunity
Hydrogen has been identified as a key pillar of the energy transition, creating opportunities across production, transport and end-use. As this nascent market develops, developers and investors must navigate complex technical, commercial and policy challenges. Our Hydrogen and Derivatives Consulting team supports clients across the full value chain—from market entry, to transaction support and investment strategy. With deep industry expertise and rigorous analysis, we help you make confident decisions in a fast-changing landscape.

At Wood Mackenzie
We support clients across the hydrogen and derivative value chain, including utilities, OEMs, producers, investors, and off-takers. Our services encompass developing business cases, defining market entry strategies, and assisting with fundraising. We help investors identify opportunities in low carbon fuels and aid producers and off-takers in sourcing or placing hydrogen and derivative volumes that meet their carbon intensity and economic targets. By leveraging our industry expertise, we facilitate growth in the hydrogen market, ensuring clients are well-positioned to capitalise on opportunities. Whether entering the market or optimising existing strategies, we provide tailored solutions for each client's unique objectives.
How we help
Our expert consulting team has facilitated numerous hydrogen and derivative transactions in the past five years. Leveraging our comprehensive market and asset-level research, we've provided support for buy-side, sell-side, and lending processes across the value chain, from power generation to hydrogen and derivative production and midstream operations.
We utilize our proprietary Hydrogen LENS economic models and cross-commodity research platform model end to end levelized project costs and displacement economics. And provide developers and investors insights on how their low-carbon fuels compete against incumbent fuels and alternative decarbonization technologies. This enables us to help clients evaluate the commercial viability of their hydrogen and derivative concepts.
Our global team of experts has a deep understanding of the complex hydrogen and derivative landscape and they key policy mechanisms in place to support development and adoption across the globe. We bring this expertise, backed by our unparalleled research data and insight to develop business cases, and actionable strategies for our clients.
Our Hydrogen team has comprehensive experience across traditional and low carbon fuels, with a deep understanding of the policy and market mechanisms required for the development of regional and global low carbon hydrogen and derivative markets. We bring this expertise to bear in all our client engagements, providing a view on lessons learned, and sign-posts to watch for as the nascent low carbon hydrogen and derivative market develops.
Global Insight in Hydrogen and Derivatives
Backed by the LENS Hydrogen Platform, our Consulting Team delivers comprehensive coverage across global Hydrogen and derivatives markets. Empowering deep and actionable insights.
85+
Hydrogen and Derivative Consulting Engagements
90+
Hydrogen and Ammonia Markets Covered
150 Mtpa+
Hydrogen Production Capacity Tracked

"I'd like to emphasize the significant contributions to the National Petroleum Council Harnessing Hydrogen report made by the Wood Mackenzie team. Their expertise was instrumental in defining the modelling that provided us with solid and actionable data pivotal in illustrating the necessary steps to scale the hydrogen industry effectively."
Case studies
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Advancing U.S. Low-Carbon Hydrogen
Advancing U.S. Low-Carbon Hydrogen
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Hydrogen and Derivatives Strategy and Market Expertise
We offer clear, independent insights to guide confident decisions in the hydrogen and derivatives market at every stage.
Trusted advisor to the nascent hydrogen industry:
- Serve diverse clients across the hydrogen and derivative value chain
- Deliver high quality independent analysis in support of transaction due diligence efforts
- Conduct bespoke cost benchmarking and commercial feasibility assessments
- Identify investment opportunities through comprehensive market and asset level coverage
- Apply our deep energy market expertise to guide strategic decisions
Unparalleled market and commercial insight:
- Robust market and asset coverage across 90+ markets
- Trusted brand in energy commodities among financial institutions
- 500+ commercia advisory and transaction engagements in past 5 years
- In-depth knowledge of debt and equity investor requirements
- Dedicated expert team for commercial due diligence support
- Our expertise leverages world leading research with over 1,000 sector analysts delivering proprietary data and insights.
- Unlike other consulting organisations, we don't have a bias in the data backing our decisions. You can always count on us to deliver independent advice.
- We maximise client access to our SMEs in all our activities by blending experienced knowledgeable consultants that deliver for you with research analysts who can be drawn upon to provide unmatched industry insight.
- Our data is exclusive by nature and combined with our advanced analytics we provide you with the answers you need to be decisive.
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