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Question for Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy

UIN 112038, tabled on 16 December 2022

Question

Dr Alan Whitehead
Labour
Southampton, Test
Commons

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what steps his Department is taking to assess and support alternative pathways for low carbon hydrogen not considered in this year’s Low Carbon Hydrogen Standard, such as electrolytic hydrogen from energy from waste, ahead of the planned update to the Standard next year.

Answer

Graham Stuart
Conservative
Beverley and Holderness
Commons

Answered on

9 January 2023

The Government considered the potential value of hydrogen production from waste in the July UK Hydrogen Strategy Update to Market. Projects seeking to produce electrolytic hydrogen using energy from waste are already able to apply for support where they can show they meet the current Low Carbon Hydrogen Standard. The Government is considering this production route as it supports UK domestic production, including the appropriate carbon accounting regime under future iterations of the Standard.

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