Source · Select Committees · Science, Innovation and Technology Committee
Recommendation 25
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Acknowledged
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The Government should identify its priorities for hydrogen in the economy and recognise the opportunity...
Recommendation
The Government should identify its priorities for hydrogen in the economy and recognise the opportunity of hydrogen development in delivering Net Zero and developing a resilient energy system. In its response to this Report, the Government should set out what further work has been done and what more is planned to identify the sectors where the UK has a competitive advantage that it can deploy, and prioritise funding and large-scale deployment in those areas initially.
Government Response Summary
The government states that hydrogen has a potential role in various sectors and that DESNZ is working to understand the capabilities and capacity of UK supply chains across the full value chain to maximize benefits to the UK.
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185
Government Response
Acknowledged
HM Government
Acknowledged
As the UK Hydrogen Strategy makes clear, hydrogen has a potential role in a range of end use sectors, including transport, power and heat. The extent to which hydrogen could be used in some sectors – heating, for example – is subject to government decisions but, as the hydrogen economy develops, the government’s approach is to maximise benefits to the UK across the full value chain. To support that objective DESNZ is working to understand the capabilities and capacity of UK supply chains across the full value chain. Last year BEIS commissioned research to analyse supply chain requirements in hydrogen production, transmission, distribution