Employment: Hydrogen

(asked on 10th June 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 steps he is taking to increase the number of jobs in the UK's hydrogen sector.


Answered by
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Kwasi Kwarteng
This question was answered on 18th June 2020

The Government is committed to exploring the?development?of hydrogen as a strategic decarbonised energy carrier, alongside electricity and other decarbonised gases. Recently, the government published the Energy Innovation Needs Assessment (EINA) for hydrogen and fuel cells which identified that in 2050 up to 15,000 jobs per annum could be created through domestic hydrogen opportunities. In order to support the development of hydrogen, we are

  • investing in innovation, with up to £121m supporting a range of projects exploring and developing hydrogen across the value chain;
  • supporting hydrogen deployment through our £100m Low Carbon Hydrogen Fund; and
  • developing sustainable business models to support low carbon hydrogen production at scale.

We are considering what more Government can to develop the UK hydrogen sector, including opportunities to protect and expand jobs and skills, as part of activity to develop hydrogen as a strategic decarbonised energy carrier for the UK.

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