India’s National Green Hydrogen Mission has directed significant policy attention and capital towards green hydrogen production, and the results are beginning to show. But production is only one part of what makes a hydrogen economy work. Downstream applications, such as fuel cell systems, that actually put hydrogen to work, have not attracted the same level of investment or development focus.

India’s clean hydrogen ambitions risk stalling due to weak storage, transportation, and safety infrastructure. Hydrogen storage—particularly high-pressure systems for mobility and distributed use—is a system-critical enabler that remains underdeveloped, underfunded, and poorly aligned with existing capital and policy instruments.