Hydrogen champion calls on UK government to work with industry to scale-up investment

The UK government needs to take key policy decisions to kickstart investment in hydrogen and lay out how it plans to have 10GW of hydrogen production capacity by 2030, according to the country’s first government-appointed hydrogen champion. In her report, Jane Toogood calls for industry and government to work together to build a hydrogen economy with a UK skills base and supply chains. The report comes just ahead of the government’s revised net zero strategy, expected this week.

After long delays in launching competitions for hydrogen produced by electrolysis and progressing blue hydrogen projects in the first industrial carbon capture utilisation and storage (CCUS) clusters that were announced over 18 months ago, global investment in hydrogen is being drawn elsewhere. The US is offering significant incentives for hydrogen production and the EU is boosting investment too, while developing an EU-wide plan for hydrogen infrastructure.