Last week a press release from DESNZ announced 7 new UK projects worth £21M to produce UK green hydrogen, suggesting that this could result in 1GW of new production. It is refreshing to see that investments are going into green hydrogen which at present has very low production in UK. An example is hydrogen refuelling stations for buses, trucks and other vehicles. Only one green hydrogen station exists in UK and it provides much less than a megawatt. It could fill about 5 hydrogen buses. Maybe DESNZ got a decimal point in the wrong place.
£21M investment at best will produce 10MW of green hydrogen at present. This is only 0.1% of the necessary 10GW planned by 2020. Perhaps we can see through the propaganda to the real investment needed ASAP. DESNZ has £1billion but it is not being spent here.