Netflix Expands Hydrogen Use to Replace Diesel Generators on Film and TV Sets [View all]

Netflix Expands Hydrogen Use to Replace Diesel Generators on Film and TV Sets
Fuel Cells Works | April 23, 2026

Netflix has published its most detailed clean power progress report yet, showing hydrogen power units, mobile batteries, and solar systems are now standard across all scripted Netflix-managed productions worldwide — with The Diplomat becoming the first production to run hydrogen for three consecutive seasons and APEX making history as Australia's first hydrogen-powered film production.

The results are concrete: Peaky Blinders: The Immortal Man cut generator fuel by nearly 40%, APEX cut diesel use by more than 50%, and The Boroughs eliminated over 75% of its diesel generator fuel reliance — almost 13,000 gallons of diesel not burned — across productions in the UK, Australia, South Africa, and the United States.

This Earth Day, Netflix has gone beyond pledges and published a production-by-production account of what replacing diesel generators with hydrogen power units, mobile batteries, and solar systems actually looks like on active film and television sets around the world. The results are specific, measurable, and, in several cases, firsts for the industry.

Hydrogen Takes Centre Stage

The Diplomat Season 3, the award-winning political drama starring Keri Russell now streaming, is Netflix's most sustained hydrogen commitment on a single production. It is the first Netflix series to deploy hydrogen power units for three consecutive seasons, operating across rural UK locations where multiple diesel generators were replaced at each deployment. The only byproducts were heat and drinkable water — a fact that production crews in remote locations can actually appreciate in a way that grid-connected studio sustainability targets rarely convey...more
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