Hydrogen rarely seems to be out of the news these days. In the last few weeks the Government announced £139m for hydrogen and carbon capture to fuel the green recovery; £1m was committed to push ahead with hydrogen trains at Alstom’s Widnes facility; and the Liverpool City Region identified their Hydrogen Economy Programme as part of its economic recovery plans to build back better. With a Hydrogen Strategy expected from Government imminently it does really seem to be hydrogen’s time.
Here in the North West we’ve a plethora of hydrogen projects from trains and buses, to industrial fuel switching to hydrogen storage. The opportunities are endless and the innovation is breathtaking.
At Peel L&P Environmental we’ve been working with PowerHouse Energy who have developed a world first plastic to hydrogen technology. The first plant at Protos, our strategic energy and resource hub in Cheshire, is due to start construction later this year. It will take unrecyclable waste plastic – destined for landfill, or worse export overseas – and use it to create a local source of clean hydrogen to fuel buses, Heavy Goods Vehicles (HGVs) and cars. Not only will this help reduce air pollution and improve air quality on local roads, it’s helping us deal with the pressing problem of plastic waste.
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