If hydrogen is the answer, what is the question?6 Jan 2023 12:38
With an estimated 11% of global carbon emissions coming from the built environment and ambitious targets to hit Net Zero by 2050, the UK construction sector has a serious challenge ahead to address decarbonisation.
Beyond the challenges of procuring cost-effective alternative generators, replacing diesel generators with HVO or hydrogen powered solutions brings with it operational risk. Companies wishing to scale these single-fuel solutions across their business are having to weigh the increased risk of delivery disruptions and power outages that emerging supply chains for alternative fuels currently present.
Switching today from diesel to green hydrogen, for example, is to go from a solution with an almost-guaranteed fuel supply and energy security to one with less reliable availability. But every time lack of supply pushes a company or site manager to purchase a new diesel generator, the transition to renewable fuels is delayed by the lifetime of this asset. In the case of the diesel generator this is seven years – a delay the construction industry cannot afford.
Whether hydrogen, HVO, biomethane, or otherwise, the renewable fuel offering the most feasible replacement for diesel across a business’s operations will depend on a number of company-specific and market-driven limitations. So why should contractors limit themselves to a single fuel, if they don’t have to? Fuel-agnostic generators give contractors a single asset that can be used on any site, with any fuel, providing an energy-secure route to net zero emissions within the timeframes needed.
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