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

To ask Her Majesty's Government what action they are taking to promote hydrogen energy storage.

The report published on the 2nd May 2019 by our independent advisors, the Committee on Climate Change, has stressed the importance of hydrogen in achieving Net Zero, however the technologies required to produce low carbon hydrogen are not yet fully developed. BEIS, through its Energy Innovation Programme, has committed more than £40 million to accelerate:

• the commercialisation of large-scale hydrogen energy storage technologies; and
• the development of supplying low carbon hydrogen at scale for industry, power, buildings and transport.