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taking a leap of faith

HYDROGEN ARE ALREADY
BUSES BEING MADE IN THE UK

HYDROGEN BUSES HAVE BEEN
TRIALLED ACROSS THE COUNTRY

from the government and from industry, in Sheffield that will be the largest transport hub is exactly the kind of thing
if we want to ensure the UK secures and electrolyser manufacturing facility in we need to see much more of.
maintains a position as a world leader the world when it is completed. Ryse If we get this right, and if we succeed
in hydrogen technology. There are no Hydrogen has a site in Herne Bay, in unlocking the UK hydrogen economy,
shortcuts to this – we are talking about Kent, that will soon become a green the benefits will be enormous: jobs,
a long-term project over the next few hydrogen production facility. Equinor economic growth, export opportunities,
decades, not a quick fix. It will need is leading a project to develop one of and a giant step towards net zero. In a
a concerted effort to make sure that the world’s first at-scale facilities to few short decades, we could be living in
graduates emerging from UK universities produce hydrogen from natural gas a country where people travel around in
are top of the tree when it comes to in combination with carbon capture hydrogen cars, buses, and trains, where
education and expertise in renewable and storage in the Humber. Alstom are hydrogen heating is delivered directly
technologies, including hydrogen. developing the UK’s first hydrogen train into people’s homes, where hydrogen
at their site in Widnes. Worcester Bosch trucks and hydrogen ships transport
are building world-leading hydrogen freight along our roads and across our
These are all hugely boilers. Wrightbus are building the waters, and where hydrogen-fuelled
encouraging and exciting world’s first hydrogen double-decker equipment and heavy machinery power
developments that show the bus in Ballymena. These are all hugely British industry and agriculture. Even
the idea of people going on holiday
encouraging and exciting developments
UK is perfectly placed to lead that show the UK is perfectly placed to on a hydrogen plane is not out of the
the world in hydrogen. Not only lead the world in hydrogen. Not only question. Not only that, but we could
that, but the economic potential that, but the economic potential for jobs be in a position in which these British-
for jobs and growth created and growth created by a flourishing made hydrogen products, as well as UK-
UK hydrogen economy would be
produced hydrogen fuel, are exported in
by a flourishing UK hydrogen spread across the whole country, not vast quantities to other countries around
economy would be spread just focused on the usual locations. the world. It is an opportunity we simply
across the whole country If the government truly believes in cannot afford to let pass us by.
its ‘levelling up’ agenda, focused on
promoting economic development on Hydrogen Strategy Now is a campaign
We have already seen a number of long-neglected parts of the country, then led by UK businesses united in the belief
companies beginning to put their money unlocking the hydrogen economy is the that the government must establish a
where their mouths are by investing in perfect place to get started. The recent UK-wide hydrogen strategy. For more
significant hydrogen projects in the UK. announcement that the Tees Valley information about the campaign, visit
ITM Power is building a new giga-factory will become the UK’s first hydrogen www.hydrogenstrategynow.co.uk

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