Energy Transition

Hydrogen

An interactive model of how electricity, water and hydrogen flow through a green-hydrogen plant — and how utilisation and the power-to-hydrogen spread convert into annual revenue, EBITDA and asset value for an investor.

Energy Transition · Hydrogen

What flows through a hydrogen plant — and how it pays

Electricity and water feed an electrolyser, which splits water into hydrogen; the gas is compressed, stored and dispatched to offtakers. It's a conversion business: the margin is the spread between the hydrogen price and the electricity cost, and — because the plant is capital-heavy — it only works at high utilisation. Watch power flow in (the cost) and hydrogen flow out (the revenue), and how the spread builds EBITDA and value.

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Electricity in the dominant cost Hydrogen out the product (sold per kg) Byproducts £ oxygen, heat, grid services Operating cost
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Stocks — what the flows accumulate intolive
H₂ in storage now
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Where revenue comes from Total £0 p.a.
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Why investors watch this: hydrogen is an energy-conversion business — electricity is ~60% of the cost, so EBITDA is the spread between the hydrogen price (typically underpinned by an offtake or subsidy contract) and the power price, and it swings hard with utilisation against a capital-heavy fixed-cost base (there is a clear breakeven). Byproducts — oxygen, recovered heat and grid flexibility — add a higher-margin layer.
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Investment case — should you buy it?DCF returns

Year-1 financials flow live from the simulation above: revenue £0 and EBITDA £0 p.a. Set your deal terms below — the unlevered IRR (asset return) and levered IRR (return to equity, after debt) recompute instantly.

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Projection — £m per year

Illustrative model. Represents a ~100 MW electrolyser at ~50 kWh/kg, operating 24×365. Revenue = hydrogen produced × price (in practice underpinned by an offtake or subsidy contract such as the Hydrogen Production Business Model) plus byproducts (oxygen, recovered heat, grid flexibility). Electricity is the dominant variable cost and scales with running, while stack, labour and connection costs are largely fixed — hence the utilisation and power-to-hydrogen spread sensitivity (it can be loss-making). EBITDA = revenue − operating costs. The investment case is a simplified DCF: unlevered IRR discounts free cash flow to the firm (EBITDA − cash tax − capex) plus an exit on the EV/EBITDA multiple; levered IRR is the equity cash flow after debt. For illustration only — not investment advice, and not any specific asset.