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Chart 2. The Guidehouse Insights Leaderboard total scores
Source: Guidehouse Insights( 2024)
Leaderboard and enable a deeper impression with regards to how an OEM may deal with the current test of resilience in the industry.
For example, the depth and quality of partnerships that an OEM has may enable it to have an advantage with stakeholders in different geographies where significant growth in green hydrogen demand is still expected. Indeed, there have already been some initial announcements regarding European firms partnering with Chinese electrolyzer manufacturers to sell the latter’ s equipment in the European market.
As with all grid- or quadrant-like scoring mechanisms published at a particular cadence, the leaderboard is a snapshot in time, one that will be inevitably updated. Moreover, the weighting of the metrics established in the methodology will likely be refined in the next edition of the report in keeping with changes and challenges within the industry.
As mentioned in the preceding section, this is particularly likely with respect to financial performance and staying power, given the headwinds faced in the sector. Another factor to highlight is pricing-related information, which readers will be unsurprised to learn is something highly sought after though not readily reported in the public sphere. To this end, Guidehouse Insights is actively exploring hydrogen benchmarking services with the incorporation of hydrogen under its General Knowledge Service( GKS) platform.
This service currently offers operational cost and / or performance benchmarking information for over 10,000 fossil, wind, and hydro power generation units, with around 30 Operations and
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