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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...

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. The deal grants the Kiwi firm non-exclusive rights...

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...