UK Government announces £7.2m for hydrogen and fuel cell demonstration programme

10 September 2009

A competition for up to £7.2m of funding for companies to develop hydrogen and fuel cell technology has been launched by the Department of Energy and Climate Change. The DECC is funding the competition as part of measures for stimulating low carbon technologies announced in this year’s budget.

Companies will be able to bid to the Technology Strategy Board, who will manage the programme, for a share of the cash to develop and test the technology.

Energy and Climate Change Minister, David Kidney said, ‘”The UK has the right combination of expertise, ingenuity and determination to bring hydrogen and fuel cell technology to the global market. We’re providing real help now to help advance this technology in the UK, keeping us at the forefront of advanced green manufacturing.’

Technology Strategy Board was set up in 2007 as a business led non-departmental public body to play a cross-Government leadership role in delivering a national technology strategy and advising on polices which relate to technology innovation and knowledge transfer.

The board operates across sectors of the UK economy, including energy, to stimulate innovation in those areas which offer the greatest scope for boosting UK growth and productivity. Technology Strategy Board’s total value of low carbon energy projects is around £127m.

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2 Responses to “UK Government announces £7.2m for hydrogen and fuel cell demonstration programme”

1. Simon Watts (London Borough Sutton) says:

   30 September 2009 at 2:38 pm

   We are undertaking a project to build a new cafe in one of our parks. This will be, in part a community project. We are constructing the building from straw and using PST (air source/solar) panels to achieve the heating and hot water. Passive ventilation will be used and we are also looking at using hydrogen fuel cell to part power the building. Could you please let me know what, if any grants are available for a pilot study of this technology in a commercial environment.
2. subvertec@gmail.com says:

   9 November 2009 at 7:26 pm

   a Trulite fcs300 generator would give renewable clean power.until you commission an hydrogen power station

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