Hydrogen

(asked on 22nd July 2021) - View Source

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

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, how the information gathered by the Green Hydrogen Project Capture survey has informed his Department's plans on (a) the 1GW by 2025 hydrogen production target and (b) the 5GW by 2030 hydrogen production target set out in the Energy White Paper entitled Powering our Net Zero Future, published by his Department in December 2020.


Answered by
Anne-Marie Trevelyan Portrait
Anne-Marie Trevelyan
Minister of State (Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office)
This question was answered on 10th September 2021

Information gathered through the Green Hydrogen Project Capture survey, alongside ongoing industry engagement, has been integral in building up our understanding of the project pipeline. Our recent consultations on the Net Zero Hydrogen Fund, Hydrogen Business Model, and setting an emissions standard for low carbon hydrogen, will further inform our plans as we work with industry to delivery on our ambition for 5GW of low carbon hydrogen production by 2030.

The survey results confirm the strength of ambition from UK industry to help meet these production levels and has helped build our understanding of potential projects, including their deployment timelines and locations. As set out in the Hydrogen Strategy, we are aware of a potential pipeline of over 15GW of projects, from large scale CCUS-enabled production plants in our industrial heartlands, to wind or solar powered electrolysers in every corner of the UK. This includes plans for over 1GW of electrolytic hydrogen projects, ranging from concept stage to fully developed proposals, which are aiming to deploy in the early 2020s.

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