Garabedian: Electric Hydrogen will beat fossil hydrogen costs by early 2030s
Rafi Garabedian · Driving down the cost of green hydrogen · Nov 13, 2025 · at 37:24
Electric Hydrogen CEO Rafi Garabedian discusses the timeline for achieving unsubsidized cost parity against fossil fuels in Brazil.
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“Now, if you take our technology roadmap a little further out, and you think about scale and also improvements we have in our, coming in our technology, along with what we expect to see in terms of continued cost reduction in wind and solar, we think we can get to actually Cheaper than fossil hydrogen around the beginning of next decade, the next decade, so in the early 20 thirties.”
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