Hydrogen

Government backs ‘urgent’ hydrogen pipeline construction

Cadent claims 40GW of wind can produce hydrogen for heat

Shapps drops hydrogen levy on suppliers

Electricity and gas suppliers will not be liable for the government’s controversial hydrogen levy, Grant Shapps has confirmed. However, concerns have been raised that prices for consumers will still end up being impacted by gas shippers paying the levy.

ITM posts heavy losses but increases electrolyser output

A record number of electrolysers have left green hydrogen pioneer ITM Power’s factory over the last six months despite losses soaring to £94.2 million for the full year, the company’s delayed annual results show. Sheffield-based ITM, which produces electrolysers that use electricity to split water into hydrogen and oxygen, has had a troubled 12 months that has seen the departure of long serving CEO Graham Cooley and the axing of a quarter of its headcount.

Orsted pulls out of green hydrogen fund bid

Orsted has withdrawn from the first round of the government’s green hydrogen support programme. The Department for Energy Security and Net Zero (DESNZ) has announced that 17 projects have been invited to negotiations to secure funding through the first allocation of its Net Zero Hydrogen Fund. Another three projects, which were shortlisted by DESNZ earlier this year and include Orsted's Gigastack project, have withdrawn from the process.

Councils face bumpy road to decarbonised transport

Overcoming barriers to low-carbon heat at a local level

How to shut down a gas network

SGN moves to next phase of hydrogen pipeline project

Government backs RAB for hydrogen transport

‘Dearth of discussion’ over potential wind-down of gas networks

Ofgem rules out rollover for gas price controls

UU launches trial to turn sewage into hydrogen and graphene

‘Significant issues’ with government’s major energy schemes

Shapps has ‘moral duty’ to explain hydrogen stance