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Telegraph: World’s first HGV hydrogen refuelling stop to be on M6 within a year
A SERVICE station on the M6 is to host one of the world’s first hydrogen refuelling stations for lorries under plans developed by a company betting that the gas will be the future of transport.
The developer Element 2 is installing the facility at Exelby Services’ Golden Fleece station on the M6 in Carlisle, as well as another of the company’s sites at Coneygarth, on the A1 in Northallerton.
The company says they will be the first public service stations in Britain to offer hydrogen refuelling for heavy goods vehicles.
Lorries that can run on the gas are not yet commercially available in the UK but several manufacturers are developing models using hydrogen fuel cells, with orders from major users.
Element 2’s work is a sign of the infrastructure being put in place so hydrogen trucks can be used once they hit UK roads. It also has mobile refuellers serving test vehicles.
Hydrogen, which does not release carbon emissions when burnt, is seen around the world as a viable replacement for fossil fuels in everything from trucks to heavy industry.
For that to happen however there needs to be a huge increase in production of clean hydrogen as well as the infrastructure to store, move and supply it.
Vehicles, heating systems and manufacturing sites also need to be redesigned to be able to use it.
Rob Exelby, the managing director of Exelby Services, said: “Following the ever-increasing global focus on tackling climate change, we feel that now is the time to be proactive and embrace low and zero carbon alternatives to diesel.
“With Element 2’s expertise we can implement hydrogen refuelling on our existing service areas to offer a one-stop-shop for all road users as we transition to net zero.”
Led by Tim Harper, a former engineer with the European Space Agency, Skipton-based Element 2 wants to develop a network of hydrogen refuelling stations around the United Kingdom by 2027.
The new stations on the A1 and the M6 could be ready within the year.
Post on a rival channel : "Email from the company stated that the DIT misinterpreted the news relating to £5mn investment received into the company last year."
No link or detail - but past performance - would suggest misinterpretation (long hand for a lie?) is likely to be true.
Maybe not - apologies. It's just you see that RNS flag and your hopes are raised - at last . . . oh no, not yet. Ever?
Trough time?
Mailed to my MP:
Mr Tomlinson
I despair!
Nothing re insulation - indeed I believe it's worse than this as recently the standards for insulation on new houses has been downgraded. I know we have left Europe but do we have to go in the opposite direction - as they all improve house insulation we make ours worse. Sadly it is somewhat typical of this government that the answer to this criticism is to re-brand the energy policy as an energy supply policy.
May we assume there will be a future policy document on saving energy - or does this, as us old Ecology/Green Party members used to argue, go against the idea that the only thing that counts is growth - we must use more fuel, gas, electricity. We really don't - there are limits to growth!
Similarly no mention of small scale, but when applied nationally highly significant, solar film or panels on every-house as part of building regulations for all new houses.
Of course I am pleased to see approval for Wind Power out at sea but sadly not on shore. Apparently this is because of objectors - not so sure that, in the face of global warming and the changed situation re energy self sufficiency, people will still object.
Nuclear - if you must, and I don't think you do have to, but at least 10 years - hardly solves the problem today.
I do note the mention of looking at Hydrogen as part of the solution - possibly as part of domestic gas supply. Sadly, from reading many government statements, I suspect you will go down the blue hydrogen route - madness!
With apologies for the rant - I was very impressed by the response I received the last time I wrote to you (regarding Honda) - I imagine I will receive an equally well argued reply but that we will still retain an energy policy tied to fossil fuels and nuclear - with lip service to renewables.
I stand corrected re the small fall (actually being a small increase). Just feels like it's falling. All that I read suggests that we should be closer to 30 than 10 and yet we are not. How does that phrase go, if it feels too good to be true then it probably isn't true.