It’s getting exciting …. Green Hydrogen is GO!5 May 2025 12:59
What do you get when you combine £6.5billion of private capital, 1GW of green hydrogen, and a consortium of some of the UK’s biggest industrial players? 🇬🇧🏭⚡️
You get HySpeed - the freshly launched hydrogen mega-project led by Jo Bamford’s HydraB Power group - who are setting out to build a national hydrogen backbone with no public money, no waiting for policy, and a plan to just get on with it.
“Now more than ever the UK needs to stand on its own two feet,” says Jo Bamford.
“Hydrogen offers us the opportunity to be energy secure and energy independent.”
Backed by Centrica (owners of British Gas), JCB, ITM Power, Johnson Matthey, Heidelberg Materials and National Gas, the project promises:
• 24,300 new jobs
• 1 million tonnes of CO₂ cut every year
• And hydrogen injected straight into the gas grid, fuelling steel, glass, chemicals and construction without the need for major site upgrades.
Dennis Schulz, CEO of ITM Power, calls it: “The most effective pathway to the rapid scale-up of the UK’s green hydrogen economy.”
Chris O'Shea, CEO of Centrica, says: “It will take every technology we have at our disposal to achieve Net Zero. Hydrogen can play a crucial role... It can be used to power the UK when the sun doesn’t shine, and the wind doesn’t blow.”
We’ve laid it all out - including the full job numbers, the offtake model, the grid plan, and why Peter Kyle MP says hydrogen - not batteries - is where Britain can lead.