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he UK government’s Clean Power Action Plan aims to clean up the power system by 2030,


with at least 95% of electricity generation coming from low- carbon sources. As a low carbon fuel, hydrogen is an important part of the energy mix. Hydrogen can offer significant


benefits in the quest to achieve net-zero, not to mention jobs and a boost to the economy, but concerns exist around cost, skills and infrastructure. Baroness Brown of Cambridge,


Chair of the Climate Change Committee (CCC) and The Carbon Trust


outlined the state of the


hydrogen industry and invited experts to define the best way forward.


STATE OF PLAY “Just a few years ago, McKinsey and Bloomberg estimated that around 20% of global energy by 2050 could come from hydrogen. We’re now looking at predictions that are significantly less, and typically around half of that,” said Brown. Now that hype has died down,


and hopefully the UK has settled into a more stable condition, Brown asked how the UK should be driving the hydrogen industry for the benefit of decarbonisation and the economy. “In the CCC’s Sixth Carbon


Budget, it suggested we would be using something like 200 terawatt hours equivalent of hydrogen by mid-century. Our current electricity consumption is around 300 terawatt hours. So we’re nearly talking about the scale of our


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GLOBAL LEADERSHIP HYDROGEN INDUSTRY


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