Green hydrogen scoops £2bn for industry projects, as pilot falters to convert homes

Energy ministry D-ESNZ has committed to back 11 projects making industrial use of green hydrogen with £2 billion over 15 years. In return for state...

RWE and Dragon LNG sign contract with AtkinsRéalis to carry out an engineering study...

RWE, the largest power generator in Wales, and Dragon LNG, one of the three UK LNG terminals, have awarded a contract to AtkinsRéalis, a...

AFC to debut world’s first ammonia-into-hydrogen pilot cracker

Fuel cell innovators AFC Energy have announced what they claim as the world’s biggest trial plant for producing low carbon hydrogen from ammonia. Weekly output...

Dale Vince partners with ZeroAvia to puff hydrogen for short-haul flights

Ecotricity founder Dale Vince has announced his low carbon spin-off airline Ecojet will use hydrogen-electric propulsion technology pioneered by fellow West Country specialists ZeroAvia. Ecojet...

Sunak’s carbon capture policy ‘deepens fossil gas reliance’; IEEFA report

The UK government’s £20 billion pot of incentives for carbon capture projects disproportionately supports extraction of gas-derived ‘blue’ hydrogen, increasing long-term reliance on the...
Rolls Royce's vision of how a small nuclear reactor might look. The report acknowledges Rolls Royce's support.

Hydrogen hopes: Rolls-Royce trios up to probe gas’s potential from small nukes

Small nuclear reactors (SMRs) as sources of low-carbon hydrogen fit to decarbonise industry and to fuel vehicles are the focus of an engineering partnership...

Green hydrogen offers up to £ 11 billion savings for UK plc, industrialists calculate

A new study backed by top manufacturers including Tata Steel, Air Products & Airbus has found nearly £11 billion of economic and environmental benefits...

Steel city forges plan to swap gas for green hydrogen

Switching Sheffield’s world-renowned steel forges from gas to locally produced green hydrogen could cut CO2 emissions by as much as 40%, a government-funded study...

Plant hire partners puff hydrogen gensets for building sites

Surrey-based AFC Energy last year launched its H-Power Generators, designed to offer zero emissions electricity to run drills, lifts and tools on building sites. Later...

Kimberly-Clark’s Coleshill, Flint mill to run on green hydrogen, not Welsh coal or flint

A joint venture formed by Octopus Energy Generation and solar- and wind-power electricity developers RES is seeking planners’ permission to run the Welsh operations...

Ceres’ state-of-the-art H2 fuel cell test centre opens in Nuneaton

A new and state-of-the-art hydrogen fuel cell and electrolysis test facility opened officially this week in Nuneaton. The site was officially opened by Mr Atsushi...

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

The companies will work together as part of the operator's LTS Futures project, designed to verify the compatibility of Britain’s local transmission system (LTS)...

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...