Hydrogen: Technology

(asked on 7th January 2020) - View Source

Question to the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy:

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what support the Government is providing to the development of hydrogen technologies.


Answered by
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Chris Skidmore
This question was answered on 13th January 2020

Government is currently investing up to £108m in a range of innovation programmes to explore and develop the potential of low carbon hydrogen. This includes:

  • Up to £20m to develop novel clean hydrogen supply methods,
  • Up to £20m to test the potential for switching to hydrogen (and other low carbon fuels) across a range of industrial sectors,
  • £25m to develop the safety of using 100% hydrogen in the home;
  • £23m to support deployment of hydrogen vehicles and growth of refuelling infrastructure.

Government also announced the £100m Low Carbon Hydrogen Production Fund in August 2019. The Fund aims to help deploy low carbon hydrogen production capacity to enable its greater use as a decarbonisation option across the energy system.

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