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Recommendation 9
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Acknowledged
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Hydrogen can undoubtedly help key UK industrial sectors decarbonise.
Recommendation
Hydrogen can undoubtedly help key UK industrial sectors decarbonise. There is a widespread recognition of the importance of regulatory reform and an effective business model in incentivising a switch to low-carbon hydrogen use. We welcome the Government’s use of industrial clusters to trial the use of hydrogen. The Government must design and establish effective mechanisms to capture and learn the lessons from these trials and demonstrably apply the lessons from the industrial clusters to be set up by 2025 to those which will be in operation by 2030.
Government Response Summary
DESNZ is monitoring and evaluating the processes and impacts of its policies in the low-carbon hydrogen space in industrial clusters and beyond to incorporate lessons learnt into future policy design, and has commissioned a study to capture feedback about the design and delivery of the Track-1 Cluster Sequencing process.
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Government Response
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HM Government
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DESNZ is monitoring and evaluating the processes and impacts of its policies in the low- carbon hydrogen space in industrial clusters and beyond to incorporate lessons learnt into future policy design and ensure accountability. As a first step for CCUS-enabled hydrogen in industrial clusters, DESNZ has recently commissioned a study to capture feedback about the design and delivery of the Track-1 Cluster Sequencing process to inform the development of the planned Track-2 process, through a series of interviews with industry and HMG officials. The report is expected to be published soon. Future work will be aimed at developing plans for impact monitoring and evaluations in the low carbon hydrogen policy space, covering CCUS-enabled, electrolytic and other hydrogen production technologies in operation in industrial clusters and beyond.