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UK government announces millions in funding for ‘low carbon’ hydrogen production

February 18, 2020

The U.K. government announced £28 million ($36.47 million) in funding on Tuesday for five projects focused on hydrogen production.

The funding is part of a £90 million package which in turn comes from a £500 million innovation fund. The Hydrogen Supply program, as it’s known, will focus on five “demonstration phase projects.”

These include what the government described as two “low carbon hydrogen production plants,” one in the northwest of England and the other near Aberdeen, Scotland. There will be also be a scheme looking to use offshore wind power to produce hydrogen through electrolysis.

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