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THE HENRY CAVENDISH LECTURES
PAVING THE WAY

IGEM Marketing Assistant Jodie Shepherd reports on the However, he noted that the use cases
first lecture in IGEM’s exciting new Henry Cavendish series, for hydrogen are varied and wide-
ranging, which is why “we see a role for
featuring leading figures from across the energy landscape hydrogen regardless of how the energy
system will transform”.
IGEM’S NEW AND prestigious Henry President for Fuel Technologies and One of the main questions Paul
Cavendish Lecture series, featuring key holds an MSc in Aerospace Engineering tackled during the hour-long event, was
players from industry and academia from Delft University of Technology in whether it’s all just hype – hydrogen
sharing their views on how a UK the Netherlands, plus a post-graduate has had many false dawns, but what
hydrogen economy can support our degree in Fluid Dynamics from the Von is different this time? According to
ambitions to reach net zero emissions Karman Institute in Brussels. Paul, there are three key elements:
by 2050, officially kicked off on 14 Paul began his lecture, entitled the pressures of climate change and
April with speaker Paul Bogers, Vice ‘Paving the way for a UK hydrogen air pollution, energy security and
President for Hydrogen at Shell Plc. economy’, by discussing Shell’s climate diversification, and a reduction in the
In his current role, Paul looks after all commitments and its aim to be net zero cost of renewables.
aspects of Shell’s emerging hydrogen by 2050. He said that hydrogen fits well So how can the UK succeed with
business, overseeing the company’s work alongside these goals and added that, hydrogen? Paul believes there are
in hydrogen as a fuel for transport and its although hydrogen has an important various keys to success here. Firstly, our
growing business in industrial hydrogen. part to play for all hard-to-decarbonise natural resources (coastlines, offshore
He was previously Shell’s Vice sectors, there’s still a lot of work to do. winds and so on) put us in a unique

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