Author: Michael Brown

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 […]

On 20 August, National Grid Gas (NGG) held an online webinar, A Roadmap to Net Zero, outlining the steps it is taking to decarbonising its network. It identified the requirement for hydrogen development in order to ensure a timely reduction in its associated energy emissions. Antony Green, NGG Project Director for Hydrogen, opened by outlining […]

On 17 August, the Green Hydrogen Virtual Summit saw a private sector panel discuss ways in which investment into hydrogen could be promoted. The event was hosted by David Hart, Visiting Professor at ICL’s Centre for Environmental Policy and Director at E4tech. Views on the requirements and solutions for unlocking investment were given by three […]

On 17 August Jorgo Chatzimarkakis, Hydrogen Europe Secretary General, opened the Green Hydrogen Summit running from the 17-20 August. Chatzimarkakis gave an overview of the role for hydrogen in Europe and a summary of its next steps. The 8 July was highlighted by the Secretary General as a landmark day for the announcement of three […]

On 6 August, Philip Dunne MP, chair of the Environmental Audit Committee (EAC) and MP for Ludlow, sent a letter to Business Secretary Alok Sharma outlining the need for development of a national hydrogen strategy. In the letter, evidence was summarised from 99 pieces of written evidence and an oral online session held on 9 […]