THE UK GOVERNMENT has confirmed a total of ￡102 million of new innovation funding for the hydrogen and nuclear energy sectors,including ￡25 million for technologies that will generate hydrogen from biomass and waste,reports sustainability website edie.The Department for Business,Energy and Industrial Strategy(BEIS)is allocating the funding as part of efforts to deliver the targets detailed in the Energy Security Strategy.On hydrogen,the strategy doubled the UK's target for clean hydrogen production capacity for 2030,to 10GW.At least half of this will need to be green hydrogen,produced by electrolysing water using systems powered with renewable electricity.The government is also looking at'blue'hydrogen,produced using natural gas and with emissions captured using man-made technologies.In the longer-term,it also sees a potential role for'pink'hydrogen,produced using nuclear electricity,and hydrogen generated using biomass and waste.The new funding announced by BEIS includes ￡25 million for the development of technologies capable of producing hydrogen from bioenergy with carbon capture and storage(BECCS).
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