Question to the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy:
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what assessment he has made of the potential overall electricity transmission grid balancing benefits of hydrogen.
The Government views hydrogen as an important component of our future power system to provide low carbon flexibility as we integrate more intermittent renewables. Excess renewable electricity can be used to produce hydrogen, using electrolysers, which can be stored over time and used flexibly to generate power when there is less sun or wind to power the grid.
As set out in the British Energy Security Strategy, the Government is committed to ensuring consideration is given in our hydrogen production policies to the siting of hydrogen electrolysers to best use surplus low carbon electricity and to reduce electricity network constraints.