UK commits to new hydrogen strategy and finalising HAR1 projects this year
“I hope you can see we’re getting on with the job by backing innovations, by breaking down barriers and developing a new strategy fit for the next five years.”
“I hope you can see we’re getting on with the job by backing innovations, by breaking down barriers and developing a new strategy fit for the next five years.”
Technical opportunities and challenges have been the focus of the hydrogen and fuel cells Europe technical forum at Hannover Messe 2025 today.
“With a CfD, it means that you have a price competition, already in a market which is not mature.”
However, CCS-enabled hydrogen is gaining momentum, with Westwood classifying 4GW of capacity as ‘probable’ across HyNet and the East Coast Cluster.
“If this government is serious about economic growth, we cannot ignore hydrogen,” Clare Jackson told the 2025 Hydrogen UK Annual Conference.
The UK Government has launched a call for evidence, inviting stakeholders with plans for early hydrogen power projects to submit proposals by May 12, 2025.
“While targets are essential, they will remain out of reach unless the policy landscape evolves,” said Westwood’s Jun Sasamura, with only 17% of planned hydrogen projects set to proceed.
The initiative was launched in 2022 to decarbonise the heavy transport sector, but the Labor Government has reallocated funding to support other transport decarbonisation priorities.
Aurora Energy Research said with high costs, weak policy, and a lack of infrastructure, green hydrogen will play “little-to-no” role in the heating, rail, and road transport sectors.
Andrew Symes explained that if production rules are too stringent, “the PtL SAF market won’t even have a chance to be able to start because green hydrogen will be too expensive.”
