Hydrogen Desk Academy
Twenty courses. Beginner to advanced. No course assumes what it has not taught.
The learner must be able to defend a proceed, renegotiate, defer or reject decision on a specific hydrogen offtake or project using the actual contract terms, cost inputs and demand assumptions in front of them, without assuming a liquid hydrogen market exists or will arrive.
20 courses · 100 to 130 chapters each · every chapter one 8 to 10 minute explainer · self-paced
Twenty courses in dependency order
A course may only assume capability taught by a lower-numbered course, and the level column never falls as you move down the table.
| # | Course | Level | Builds on | What this course owns |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| A | Hydrogen and its inputs | |||
| 01 | Hydrogen Business & End Uses | 1/10 | none | What hydrogen is bought for today by refining, ammonia, methanol and heat users, and what each end use demands of a supplier. |
| 02 | Pathways, Units & Specifications | 1/10 | 01 | Production and conversion pathways with their purity grades, specification language, and conversion between mass, energy and volume bases. |
| 03 | Electricity Procurement | 2/10 | 01, 02 | Contracting electricity for an electrolyser: power purchase shapes, hourly matching rules, grid charges, curtailment and load factor consequences. |
| 04 | Cost Structures & Delivered Costs | 2/10 | 02, 03 | Assembling a delivered cost stack per pathway from capital, power, conversion, storage and transport inputs, and testing it for sensitivity. |
| B | Policy, certification and offtake | |||
| 05 | Policy & Market Maturity | 3/10 | 01, 02, 04 | Reading policy and regulatory instruments, and assessing how immature and illiquid the market actually is, including the case where it does not develop as projected. |
| 06 | Certification & Carbon-Intensity Evidence | 3/10 | 02, 03, 05 | Producing and auditing carbon-intensity evidence under a named scheme: data chain, system boundaries, verification, and what happens when evidence fails. |
| 07 | Offtake Agreements & Buyer Requirements | 4/10 | 04, 05, 06 | Drafting and negotiating the offtake itself: term, quantity obligation, specification warranty, delivery point, remedies, and buyer qualification conditions. |
| 08 | Pricing Formulae & Indexation | 4/10 | 04, 06, 07 | Building price formulae where no liquid hydrogen reference price exists: proxy index selection, pass-through of power cost, floors, caps and reopener mechanics. |
| C | Exposure, delivery and derivative demand | |||
| 09 | Input-Cost Risk & Feasible Hedging | 5/10 | 03, 04, 08 | Identifying which input and output exposures the signed contracts create, and testing which can actually be hedged with instruments that trade today. |
| 10 | Storage, Transport & Delivery Contracts | 5/10 | 02, 04, 07 | Storage, pipeline, trucking and shipping agreements: capacity rights, loss and boil-off terms, nomination regimes and liability allocation. |
| 11 | Ammonia Commercial Economics | 6/10 | 02, 04, 10 | Ammonia as the carrier: conversion and reconversion economics, cargo sizing, destination netback, and competition with conventional ammonia supply. |
| 12 | Methanol & Other Derivative Offtakes | 6/10 | 02, 10, 11 | Methanol and other derivative offtakes, where the product competes directly against an established fossil-based equivalent with an observable price. |
| 13 | Customer Conversion & Willingness to Pay | 6/10 | 01, 07, 08 | The buyer-side capital and operating cost of switching, and how to establish and evidence a willingness to pay rather than assume one. |
| D | Investment case and structuring | |||
| 14 | Volume Flexibility & Demand Uncertainty | 7/10 | 07, 08, 13 | Structuring flexibility against demand that may not materialise: take-or-pay levels, ramp profiles, flex bands, and the cost of each band to the seller. |
| 15 | Support Mechanisms & Revenue Scenarios | 7/10 | 05, 08, 14 | Support mechanism mechanics and the construction of revenue scenarios, including subsidy delay, reduction and withdrawal cases. |
| 16 | Project Bankability & Contract Alignment | 8/10 | 07, 14, 15 | Aligning contract terms to lender requirements: tenor matching, credit support, conditions precedent, and maintaining the bankability gap list. |
| 17 | Project Finance & Capital Structure | 8/10 | 04, 15, 16 | Sizing debt and equity, gearing, cover ratios, construction funding, cost of capital, and turning the contract set into investment case numbers. |
| 18 | Joint Ventures & Development Agreements | 9/10 | 16, 17 | Development stage structuring between parties: stage gates, cost sharing, reserved matters, default, exit and deadlock resolution. |
| E | Stress and decision | |||
| 19 | Project Delay, Counterparty & Policy Stress | 9/10 | 09, 14, 17, 18 | Stress testing delay, counterparty failure and policy reversal together, and setting the trigger levels at which a position is renegotiated or deferred. |
| 20 | Commercialisation Simulation | 10/10 | 14, 16, 17, 19 | Running a full commercialisation decision end to end and defending proceed, renegotiate, defer or reject against challenge. |
Every course states the capability it owns. The brochure carries the same table plus the chapter list behind each course, which is the quickest way to find the course that teaches the thing you cannot currently do.
The whole desk end to end, in one programme
The twenty courses take one capability at a time, in dependency order, for someone building from the ground up. The Hydrogen Desk Master Programme does the opposite: it runs the whole hydrogen and its derivatives desk front to back in a single sequence, for someone who already works on a desk and wants the shape of the job quickly rather than the long route.
Take whichever matches your starting point. They cover the same ground and several of the numbered courses draw on the same material.
Take one course, or the whole pathway
Each course stands alone. Taken in order, the twenty build one desk capability from no prior knowledge.