(Glasgow/Scotland) – British energy supplier Scottish Power has launched a new green hydrogen division. “We led the onshore wind revolution here in the UK over twenty years ago, we were a major innovator in offshore wind and helped drive down the cost of this technology, and now we want to do the same for green hydrogen,” said the head of the new hydrogen area, Barry Carruthers.
Collaboration with Linde for tank infrastructure
A year ago, Scottish Power announced a strategic partnership with ITM Power and BOC - a Linde Group company since 2006 - to develop green hydrogen production facilities with clusters of refueling stations across Scotland. Customers will be supplied with hydrogen for their heavy-duty vehicles within the next two years. Scottish Power also wants to work with distilleries and companies in the petroleum, steel and ammonia industries.
The company wants government funding
According to its own statements, the company wants to make “a significant contribution” to the British government’s goal of building around five gigawatts of production output by 2030. However, government funding is necessary for this, demands Barry: “As with all new, emerging technologies, we need a mechanism from the government to enable the investments necessary to stimulate competition in the green hydrogen sector.
Scottish Power divested itself of its entire coal-fired electricity and heat portfolio by 2018 in order to generate electricity entirely from renewable energy. Scottish Power's parent company is the Spanish energy company Iberdrola. The company announced in November that it wanted to develop electrolysers for green hydrogen with an output of 2025 megawatts in Europe by 600 (we reported).
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