Shapps “will not add H2 introduction charge” to bills; hints other green levies may...
An interview given by energy secretary Grant Shapps yesterday has prompted new speculation that green levies mandated to spur renewables could return to bills...
Flow control firm & SGN partner over gas grids’ hydrogen readiness
Giant gas grid operator SGN has selected flow control specialists Oxford Flow, to check the hydrogen-readiness of existing gas infrastructure.
The companies will work together...
Carlton’s & Schroders’ £200 m hydrogen bid glows green for gas’s prospects
A £ 200 million joint venture announced today in green hydrogen testifies to the low-carbon gas’ future as an industrial mainstay and low-carbon substitute.
Developers...
Britain lags on coherent hydrogen policy, says RenewablesUK
Policymakers’ lack of joined-up thinking on hydrogen as a low carbon industrial saviour risks the UK losing out to economies better managed to embrace...
Plane-makers’ merger presages hydrogen-powered Islander revamp
An iconic British plane was today absorbed into a new venture promoting zero admissions flight.
A hydrogen-powered version of the Britten-Norman Islander light transport may...
AFC leases hydrogen-based mega-generator to Spanish partner
A three month trial in Spain of fuel cell pioneer AFC Energy's H-Power clean hydrogen-based generator has convinced the firm to extend its product...
Hydrogen blended into gas grid “unfairly expensive to consumers”, 20 organisations tell Shapps
Boosting Britain’s nascent hydrogen economy by pumping the gas in blends over established grids will impose unfair costs on businesses & households, campaigners including...
Renewables leaders hail Hydrogen Champion’s calls on government
Green power generators have welcomed the first report from the government’s ‘hydrogen champion’.
Johnson Matthey executive Jane Toogood was appointed last summer as an independent...
Ceres trials its green H2 tech with Linde & Bosch
Clean energy innovators Ceres Power Holdings have signed up with chemical giant Linde Engineering & industrial leviathan Bosch to pilot a 1 MW green...
Appointment of Dr Graham Cooley to Chair H2 Green
Getech, owner of hydrogen developer H2 Green has announced Dr Graham Cooley as Chair of H2 Green. Graham will assist H2 Green to expand and...
Hydrogen genset firm GeoPura expands with £36m from GM & friends
Hydrogen-fuelled power makers GeoPura have secured £36 million in growth funds from heavyweight investors including Barclays Sustainable Impact Capital and the venture capital arm...
“Red & yellow & pink & green”; Ministers seek to sing hydrogen’s simpler rainbow
Standardising hydrogen’s often confusing palette of colours and sources is the government’s aim in its proposed new certification scheme, announced today.
Verifying the sustainability of...
Tale of two molecules: CPH2 expands, ITM Power takes stock
Clean hydrogen innovators were this morning reflecting on further moves in the gas’ advance to commercial maturity.
CPH2, Doncaster-based developers of a patent-protected membrane-free hydrogen...
High, higher, hydrogen: ZeroAvia debuts world-beating 19-seater electric plane
Cotswolds-based carbon-free aviation pioneers ZeroAvia were today hailing a maiden zero- emissions flight by the world’s biggest-yet electrically powered plane.
A 19-seater Dornier 228 twin...
ITM Power’s shares drop 12% on new boss’s profits warning
Shares in AIM-quoted catalyser builder ITM Power closed more than 12 per cent down today at a year low, as investors reacted to a...
Triple pressure: Britain “may need 150k heat pump installers this decade, not 50k”
Meeting the government’s target for installing heat pumps may require up to three times the 50,000 technicians which Whitehall foresees, industry experts now estimate.
By...
Gravitricity ponders hydrogen as “porridge” for ‘Goldilocks’ storage shafts
Inertia-based power storage pioneers Gravitricity are positing steel-lined mine shafts and rock piercings nearly 400 metres deep as storage tanks for Britain’s soon-to-be-abundant hydrogen.
The...
Government finds £102 million at Christmas to prime new nuclear & hydrogen
The Sunak administration today presented early gifts to investors in nuclear power and advanced hydrogen, finding parcels of £77 million and £25 million respectively...
Hydrogen-fuelled city hops “a reality by 2042”, say BA, Heathrow, easyJet, Rolls-Royce & chums
Within the next 20 years, passengers could be flying between UK regions in planes emitting no carbon, a squadron of heavy-lifters in commercial aviation...
Rough guide to Easington: Centrica & Equinor ally to firm up Yorkshire’s H2 hub
Centrica and Norwegian energy giant Equinor have pledged jointly to push ahead with developing a hydrogen production hub at Easington on the Yorkshire/Humberside coast.
Currently...