IN SUMMARY
Without traceability infrastructure, low-carbon hydrogen is indistinguishable from high-carbon hydrogen the moment it enters a shared supply chain. Over two years and £5 million of UK–Australia funding, the HyPACT consortium has built a working system that links a live electrolyser to a verified Digital Product Passport — automatically, at batch level. Workshop 2 is where the people who produce, buy, certify and regulate hydrogen help shape what the standard becomes.
Among the first funded projects globally to demonstrate an operational hydrogen DPP — a working system, not a concept
One data setup, multiple schemes: built to UK LCHS and Australia’s GO Scheme, designed to extend to EU RED III
Findings feed directly into deliverables to DESNZ and the Australian government — your input goes on the official record
A hydrogen molecule is just a hydrogen molecule
You can’t tell by looking whether hydrogen was made with offshore wind or a coal-fired grid, and once it enters a pipeline it mixes. Most certification today is static, annual and self-reported — not the real-time, batch-level record a genuine premium market needs. Green hydrogen only commands a premium over grey for as long as the proof holds, and right now that proof mostly doesn’t travel with the product.
From live production data to a verified passport — automatically
HyPACT links hydrogen production to a verified certificate through one automated chain: sensor and metering data captured by Certscape, a parameterised LCA engine from Minviro that recalculates carbon intensity for every 30-minute production window, an immutable Hyperledger Besu ledger developed by EDF R&D, and a publicly auditable Digital Product Passport at the end. No human in the loop for batch calculations, so it scales to thousands of batches a month.