A leading campaign group is launching an
industry-wide survey to discover the ‘State of the Hydrogen
Nation’ ahead of the expected publication of the UK’s Hydrogen
Strategy in June.
Members of the cross-industry Hydrogen Strategy Now
(HSN) group, which combined employ more than 100,000 people and
have a value of £100bn in the UK, stand ready to invest up to
£3bn in hydrogen projects and create thousands of jobs across the
country.
The group is launching a survey to find out the true
scale of the sector that already exists in the UK - and to
highlight the untapped potential that could be boosted by the
introduction of an ambitious hydrogen strategy from the
Government.
The HSN campaign is encouraging as many organisations
as possible with links to hydrogen to get involved - whether they
are HSN members or not.
A spokesperson for the campaign said: “Today,
industry stands ready to invest, create lots of high-quality jobs
and deliver Net Zero gains,and we’re keen to demonstrate this via
our survey.
“We’re hoping for a high response rate so we can
showcase the true potential of the sector and the scale of its
economic, job creation and environmental
ambitions.
“As a collective, the Hydrogen Strategy Now
group
believes the UK has what it takes to
become a global leader in low-carbon hydrogen technology, but we
must move fast to realise this opportunity and achieve the
maximum economic benefit.
“Hydrogen will play an essential role in the world’s
future, low-carbon economy - and with the Government setting even
more ambitious climate change targets, now is the perfect time to
unlock the UK’s hydrogen
potential.”
The group was established last year to call for the
Government to make a serious commitment to invest in hydrogen
technologies and to publish a clear, strategic plan for hydrogen
to unlock significant private
funding.
They HSN collective, which has 60 members and support
from 67 cross-party peers and MPs, believes a UK-wide hydrogen
economy will:
- Create and sustain hundreds of thousands of
high-skilled, green jobs, in all parts of the
country and in
alignment with the Government’s ‘levelling-up’
agenda
- Drive progress to Net Zero and improve air quality in
towns and cities
- Secure private investment into the UK, and unlock export
opportunities for products and skills
- Increase energy security by making fuller use of
the UK’s natural resources
The survey can be found
at https://forms.gle/uhwVcnXQhPQj9BdD7
and is open for respondents
until 11.59pm
on Sunday May
7.
Ends
NOTES TO EDITORS
Business leaders from the following firms have backed
the Hydrogen Strategy Now
campaign:
Adelan
Air
Products
Alexander
Dennis
Alstom
AngoAmerican
Arcola
Energy
Arup
Ballard
Baxi
Heating
BayoTech
BCGA
BOC
Bosch
Bramble
Energy
Cadent
Ceres
DWF
EDF
ENA
Energy
UK
Enterprise
Rent-A-Car
Equinor
ETGAS
EUA
Green
Tomato Cars
H2Go
Power
ITM
Power
JCB
Johnson
Matthey
Kew
Technology
Kiwa
National
Express
Nel
Neptune
Energy
NGN
Orsted
Petrofac
Powerhouse
Energy Group
PRA
Progressive
Energy
Protium
Ricardo
Riversimple
RWE
Ryse
SGN
Siemens
SMMT
Storengy
TUV
National Engineering Laboratory
UK
H2Mobility
UKHFCA
Ulemco
Uniper
Unitrove
Vattenfall
Wales
& West Utilities
Wrightbus
WSP
ZeroAvia
