Industrial Decarbonisation Frontiers Report: Hydrogen Generation
Summary
Lead Author:
Jon Maddy
University of South Wales
Hydrogen Generation
Hydrogen is a critical component of the UK’s strategy to achieve net zero emissions by 2050, particularly for industrial decarbonisation in hard-to-electrify applications and for large-scale energy storage. The UK Government’s ambition to produce 10GW of clean hydrogen by 2030 and scale this to between 250–460 TWh by 2050 underlines the importance of developing efficient, scalable, and cost-effective hydrogen generation. This report brings together IDRIC’s research to address major challenges in clean hydrogen generation, including improvements in low- and high-temperature electrolysis, use of co-products, hydrogen production and recovery from industrial streams, hydrogen carriers, and point-of-use generation.