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...

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...

The British oil industry’s Net Zero Technology Centre has been awarded £2.12M from the Scottish government, in quest of a means to deliver commercially...

Green hydrogen to help spin 2.2GW turbines? RWE ponders CCUS for Pembroke

Seizing the gas after combustion at the 2.2GW plant, and introducing hydrogen as a clean fuel, are among possibilities to be assessed. Scheduled for completion...

Electrolyser technology key to unlocking green Hydrogen’s potential says IMI Critical Engineering

With experts predicting that hydrogen uptake must triple to meet global decarbonisation targets, IMI Critical Engineering has expanded its breakthrough technology portfolio and launched...

H2 trick! Carlton nets third hub, secures consent for City’s green gas plant serving...

Manchester’s third hat-trick in 24 hours arrived this morning, as innovators Carlton Power announced planning clearance for the North West’s first low-carbon hydrogen hub. Trafford...

Blue H2’s pipeline puffs to 16GW across UK and Norway, analysts find

Hydrogen’s "blue" variety scrubbed from oil and gas commands a 90:10 capacity lead over its electrolysed, cleaner “green” variant, in the UK and Norway,...