“The UK’s green hydrogen pipeline has grown to 1.8GW across 72 sites across the UK,” Molly McCorkingdale, market analyst at Solar Media, said at the Green Hydrogen Summit earlier this week.
A coalition of 20 organisations led by think tank E3G, including Octopus Energy and WWF-UK, have raised concerns over claims made within the recent Hydrogen Champion Report.
Octopus Energy Generation and renewable energy company RES have confirmed plans to utilise green hydrogen at two Kimberly-Clark manufacturing facilities.
Following investment from Ofgem’s Strategic Innovation Fund (SIF), UK Power Networks is set to launch a “major series of innovation projects” to help the UK achieve a “Silicon Valley of energy.”
RenewableUK has called on the UK government and devolved administrations to reform the planning system to allow green hydrogen projects to rapidly be built across the country.
Energy generation and storage company Statera have released plans to develop a 3GW green hydrogen project in Scotland capable of supplying the UK with up to 30% of its 10GW by 2030 hydrogen target.
UK Hydrogen Champion Jane Toogood has called on the UK government to create a plan for an integrated energy infrastructure to incorporate gas, electricity and hydrogen, with potential savings of up to £38 billion.
The UK and France have signed an energy-based partnership that could see electricity interconnection capacity between the two countries increase by up to two thirds.
