Primary hydrogen spillover has been studied using a unique electrical method. We observed that at ambient temperature, when a discontinuous nanogranular Pd film is on the top of an amorphous carbon film, the electrical conductance of the carbon film decreases in pressurized hydrogen. In comparison, in the absence of this Pd layer, the conductance of the carbon film remains unchanged in pressurized hydrogen. The observed decrease in the current in the Pd/carbon structure is ascribed to the hydrogenation of the dangling carbon bonds and sp2-sp3 transition in the amorphous carbon by the primary spillover hydrogen atoms from Pd nanoclusters.