Green Hydrogen Alliance launches in the UK

The GHA aims to help ensure that the UK remains globally competitive in the development and deployment of one of the most exciting technologies for enabling decarbonisation.

The GHA brings together businesses across the entire hydrogen supply chain, including Airbus, Air Products, Associated British Ports, London City Airport, Tata Steel, World Kinect; as well as an advisory board including Cranfield University and the Thames Estuary Growth Board. The purpose of the group is to highlight the huge potential opportunities that exist in the application of green hydrogen to some of the UK’s leading industries - from aviation and road haulage to industrial usage and the decarbonisation of power. It will also detail what can be done to accelerate the commercial viability of green hydrogen technologies.

The GHA welcomes the UK government’s ambitious targets for green hydrogen and states the positive opportunities that can be taken in the policy and regulatory environment to go further. Accelerating policy will help ensure that the UK does not fall behind overseas competitors such as Germany and the Netherlands, who have set out strategies to drive a more rapid development towards their own green hydrogen economies.

A spokesperson for the GHA said: “We welcome the government’s ambitious target of 5 GW of electrolytic hydrogen production by 2030, but we must move further and faster on policy if we are to unlock the benefits green hydrogen will bring.”

As well as looking in-depth at the commercial viability of green hydrogen across a number of leading UK sectors, the GHA will analyse the economic impact that the development of green hydrogen uses could have on specific areas of the country.

The GHA will undertake new analysis assessing where the barriers are to the UK becoming a genuine global leader in a technology that could help meet carbon reduction targets, increase energy security and create thousands of new renewable energy jobs across the country.

The GHA is apolitical and will work with both the government and all political parties, as well as civil service officials and industry groups, to help them understand the opportunities of a burgeoning green hydrogen industry.

A spokesperson for the GHA said: “Green hydrogen could provide a secure supply of green energy while also helping the UK in its efforts to decarbonise. We look forward to working with policymakers to ensure the country can fulfil its potential in this exciting developing technology.”

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