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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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.
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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...