India urged to adopt Japan’s CFD model for green hydrogen

  • Gas
  • November 9, 2025

India should adopt Japan’s contracts-for-difference (CFD) model to help make green hydrogen projects bankable and accelerate final investment decisions, according to Amrit Singh Deo, Senior Managing Director at FDI Consulting and advisor to the India Hydrogen Alliance (IH2A).

Speaking on a gasworld/H2 View webinar, he explained that the bottleneck in projects reaching FID is not due to lack of demand, but bankability.

“The answer is simple, it’s offtake – guaranteed [long-term] offtake,” he said. “Without offtake guarantees, no project is going to be bankable.”

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