Blending tradition with innovation, a project hoping to decarbonise the gin distilling process with green hydrogen has been awarded nearly £150,000 of funding from the UK Government.

Hydrogen has been identified as an alternative fuel for energy intensive industrial processes, such as distilleries.

The HySpirits project in Orkney, Scotland brings together three different organisations with a common drive to decarbonise energy.

Led by the European Marine Energy Centre (EMEC), the other partners are Orkney Distilling, the site selected for hydrogen fuel integration, and Edinburgh Napier University who will assess the distillery site and develop the hydrogen system design and specification.