The Technology Strategy Board has announced a £7.5m 'demonstrator programme' which is aimed to speed up the adoption of hydrogen and fuel cells.
The programme aims to show how hydrogen and fuel cell technologies can be used in advanced transport systems, and to show how they can integrate with renewable energies and new refuelling infrastructure.
The new funding was announced in London at a demonstration of hydrogen and fuel cell technologies funded by an earlier £7m programme from the Department of Energy and Climate Change, which was delivered by the Technology Strategy Board.
Energy and climate change minister Greg Barker said: "Hydrogen and fuel cell technologies are at the forefront of new energy solutions, which will dramatically cut emissions from transport and the Coalition is determined to support their development. This new government-supported programme marks further progress in bringing this exciting technology to market."
"We now have technologies at a relatively mature stage of development, with a number of hydrogen and fuel cell systems being demonstrated for buildings or vehicles," said David Bott, the Techology Strategy Board's director of innvation programmes. "The new competition is designed to help business-led consortia develop innovative, large-scale, application-led projects that integrate hydrogen and fuel cell systems with key elements of our energy and transport systems and the wider built environment. Through this funding we hope to leverage further investment, strengthening the UK's capability at a national level and supporting the development of new strategic partnerships in the UK."
