Author: Michael Brown

The OGA has published a short-version report of a study by Progressive Energy on Bacton’s potential to become a significant hub for clean energy and hydrogen. The report highlights the role for a combination of natural gas to make blue hydrogen and wind to produce green hydrogen. It noted the potential for “very significant hydrogen […]

MEDIA RELEASE 22nd February 2021 A new research study has been officially kicked off to explore the potential for hydrogen production off the coast of East Anglia. The study, led by Hydrogen East, will research options and scenarios to bring together the region’s offshore gas and offshore wind sectors to produce clean hydrogen at scale […]

On 16 December, Hydrogen East held a virtual webinar on Suffolk hydrogen and the Net Zero Challenge. A range of speakers from Sizewell C, EDF Energy and Policy Exchange presented at the event on the opportunity for hydrogen across Suffolk and the North Sea. Nigel Cornwall, Founding Director at Hydrogen East, opened the session with […]

On 9 December, the Oil and Gas Technology Centre (OGTC) hosted a webinar summarising highlights and main messages from its recently published report with the Offshore Renewable Energy Catapult (OREC): Reimagining a Net Zero North Sea. Martyn Tulloch, Head of Energy System Integration at OGTC, opened by outlining the energy potential across technologies in the […]

On 30 November, the House of Lords held a session on ‘Supporting private investment in the hydrogen sector in the UK’ following an oral question by Baroness Meacher. Baroness Bloomfield of Hinton Waldrist opened with an outline of the government’s commitment to 5GW of hydrogen production capacity by 2030. The support for achieving this was […]

On 25 November, the UK Government published it’s 2020 Spending Review (SR20). A £100bn capital investment was pledged for 2020-21 for infrastructure and to ‘level up for a greener, stronger future’. In respect of ‘innovative clean technologies’, £1bn of funding as been committed to a Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS) Infrastructure Fund along with ‘additional […]

Announced on 23 November, EDF Energy has published details of plans to construct and operate two demonstrator projects at its East Suffolk site. The first project will see construction of a hydrogen electrolyser with an expected capacity of up to 2MW. This would enable production of up to 800kg of hydrogen each day which could […]

Hydrogen East hosted its first quarterly stakeholder update event on 20 October which saw more than 110 registrations. The event gave an update on Hydrogen East’s progress since its launch event in July 2020, covering its three main workstreams. Initial opening remarks were made by Nigel Cornwall in respect of ‘a busy three months’ for […]

On 17 September, the House of Lords held a session on whether the Hydrogen Advisory Council will develop a fully-funded hydrogen strategy for the UK. In an opening statement, Lord Callanan confirmed that a national Hydrogen Strategy will be published before COP26. He expressed the UK’s good placement to play a leading role in hydrogen […]

On 7 September, Business Secretary Alok Sharma MP issued a response to Environmental Audit Committee chair Philip Dunne MP’s letter sent on 4 August in respect of developing a UK hydrogen strategy. In the original letter, evidence gathered by the committee for a hydrogen strategy was summarised from 99 pieces of written evidence and an oral online […]