The opening morning of the British Compressed Gases Association annual conference shone the spotlight on construction, which is a sector that remains central to decarbonisation.
On stage at the Worsley Park Hotel in Manchester were John Vickers, Engineering Director, and Caitlin Sergeant, Senior Project Engineer, at HyKit, which is a hydrogen infrastructure joint venture comprising JCB, HYCAP and HydraB Group.
Vickers said the hydrogen industry was busy looking at “creative ways” to try to bring costs down and offer pragmatic options to builders.
“Part of this is developing much smaller pieces of [hydrogen-powered] equipment,” he said. “A lot of site operators are not operating at any sort of scale that can justify deployment of large-scale assets. Space is incredibly tight on some of these sites – and then there are concerns over availability of supply.”
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