Hydrogen to get a further boost with over £21m of Government support for seven projects to make fuel for transport and businesses moving away from natural gas.

Four projects will develop plans for new hydrogen production plants, to supply cleaner fuel to companies across a range of industries and three projects are set to produce start actual construction of plants of hydrogen for industry and transport. Together, the seven projects have the potential capacity of 800MW.

Minister for Energy Efficiency and Green Finance Lord Callanan said: “We expect hydrogen to play a vital role in decarbonising businesses and transport as we work towards meeting our net-zero targets. This follows our announcement of over £2bn for 11 other green hydrogen production projects, making sure more of our energy is made at home in the UK.”

The extra funding plug into the Governments overall clean energy schemes that include progressing a number of new carbon capture and hydrogen projects across the UK backed by £20bn, opening a competition to build small modular reactors, launching a £160m fund to support the emerging UK floating offshore wind sector and opening bids for new British low-carbon electricity generation projects, worth £205m this year.

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