Innovate UK deliver bi-monthly webinar series Navigating Net Zero: Understanding the Role of Hydrogen
Innovate UK have set up a series of myth busting webinars ‘Navigating Net Zero: Understanding the Role of Hydrogen’, demonstrating the latest innovations and case studies across the hydrogen supply chain working to accelerate the UK’s pathway to Net Zero.
About the events
With hydrogen playing a crucial role in achieving the UK’s Net Zero ambitions, the sessions will provide valuable insights into its potential impacts, unpack common misconceptions, provide a forum for knowledge sharing, and create a ‘marketplace’ for hydrogen by connecting end users to the solution providers.
Each webinar offers a unique perspective on the journey towards adopting hydrogen, including the challenges and opportunities it presents. While sessions are grouped by stakeholder groups, all are welcome to attend and can benefit from the discussions.
The webinars will also be an opportunity to provide live feedback to inform Innovate UK’s future programmes to support UK businesses and stakeholders.
The second webinar in the series, Hydrogen Innovation in Industry, takes place on Tuesday 16th July at 10.00am and will focus on business innovation and the role of hydrogen in supporting industrial decarbonisation efforts, exploring innovations happening across industry to facilitate knowledge sharing and collaboration between stakeholders across regions, and discussing challenges and enablers of hydrogen and demystify some of the myths around hydrogen safety.
This webinar is part of Net Zero Week, the UK’s official national awareness week. The free online conference highlights the Net Zero challenges and opportunities, with expert insight and updates from a host of partners key to the Net Zero transition. Learn more at www.netzeroweek.com
The third webinar in the series, Local Authorities Working Towards Hydrogen, will take place on Thursday 26th September at 10.00am and will spotlight the experiences of local authorities in adopting hydrogen to address local net zero challenges. Local authorities that have deployed hydrogen or are continuing to adopt and accelerate hydrogen will share their experiences to facilitate knowledge exchange across the UK.
Book your place through the Innovate UK website.
Catch up on the first webinar of the series
The first webinar, which took place in May, UK Hydrogen landscape: How hydrogen can unlock a greener future, gave an overview of the key enablers of hydrogen as well as demystifying important topics within the hydrogen sector. Speakers from trade bodies representing hydrogen, industry, academia and local authorities featured and took part in a Q&A panel discussion. You can watch the recording now.
Innovate UK hosts a Hydrogen Innovation Network which plays an instrumental role in connecting stakeholders involved in the hydrogen supply chain, bringing together industry stakeholders, academia, government departments, businesses, and local authorities, to identify opportunities and leverage enablers to accelerate the clean hydrogen supply chain.
Organisations working with hydrogen technology, clean hydrogen technology and decarbonisation or wishing to deploy hydrogen technologies, are invited to join the network to receive regular updates about Innovate UK funding and events in the hydrogen sector, and help shape the UK hydrogen economy.
About East Midlands Hydrogen
East Midlands Combined County Authority, Cadent, and some of the region’s leading organisations such as Uniper, Toyota, Midlands Engine, East Midlands Freeport and Leicester & Leicestershire Local Enterprise Partnership have formed an industrial partnership called East Midlands Hydrogen. Co-Chaired by Will Morlidge of EMCCA and Sally Brewis of Cadent, the East Midlands Hydrogen Consortium is set to become the UK’s largest inland hydrogen cluster and will accelerate the development of, and attract investment to, the rapidly growing hydrogen ecosystem in our region.
Unlike other major hydrogen clusters which are coastal, East Midlands Hydrogen is right in the heart of the country. It brings together an intensive cluster of hydrogen demand forecasts from around 70 industrial sites in the Nottinghamshire, Derbyshire and northern Leicestershire regions, who are asking for more than 10TWh of hydrogen by 2040 in total, to enable site decarbonisation. For these sites alone, access to low carbon hydrogen would enable carbon savings of 1.9 million tonnes per year, the equivalent of gas-related carbon emissions from 860,000 homes.
For media enquiries, contact:
Nicola Swaney
Head of External Affairs, East Midlands Combined County Authority