Commercialising the uptake of hydrogen

The EU is intending to have all sectors of the economy at net zero greenhouse gas production by 2050. But heavy industry and transport can be challenging to electrify directly. So renewable, low-carbon hydrogen, and its derivatives, are key tools in the box. To get there, we need to create a stronger demand for the fuel, boost transport and storage networks and secure the renewable affordable electricity needed to generate cost-effective hydrogen. Our three projects today, all of which received support from the EU’s research and innovation funding, have some solutions.Magali Senaux, senior consultant and project manager at Environmental Resources Management Limited, is keen tosee the day when the buses passing you by in the street no longer belch out fumes, instead, leaving nothing but a dribble of water.Melanie Lienerth is passionately interested in hydrogen-powered flight which she brings closer at H2FLY, the company behind a test flight believed to be the first, forward flight of a vertical take-off and landing aircraft powered by liquid hydrogen.Benedikt Hasibar is a project coordinator at Green Gas Technologies at RAG Austria AG – Austria’s largest energy storage company. Benedikt is working on the development of effective and efficient hydrogen storage.