Designing the Net Zero Hydrogen Fund - Consultation

Closed 25 Oct 2021

Opened 17 Aug 2021

Contact

HydrogenProduction@beis.gov.uk

Overview

A consultation to inform the design of the £240m Net Zero Hydrogen Fund (NZHF) which aims to support the commercial deployment of low carbon hydrogen production during the 2020’s.

Why your views matter

The government is seeking views on how we design the NZHF to maximise it's benefits, while ensuring value for money.  It outlines our proposals for:

  • Type of funding
  • Technologies
  • Activities
  • Eligibility and project assessment criteria
  • Delivery

Those interested in responding to the consultation are likely to include:

  •  Companies involved in the construction of low carbon hydrogen production projects
  • Companies that are looking for development support for low carbon hydrogen production projects
  • Interested members of the public

Audiences

  • Central government
  • Construction
  • Freelance researchers
  • General public
  • Innovation community
  • Investment
  • Large businesses (over 250 staff)
  • Learned Societies
  • Local government
  • Low carbon technologies
  • Medium business (50 to 250 staff)
  • Micro business (up to 9 staff)
  • Multinational businesses
  • Non-departmental public bodies
  • Nuclear
  • Oil and Gas
  • Research Councils
  • Research Funders
  • Science Policy organisations and thinktanks
  • Small business (10 to 49 staff)
  • SMEs (small and medium businesses)
  • The Devolved Administrations
  • Thinktanks
  • Trade bodies
  • Universities
  • University staff
  • Wave and tidal
  • Wind

Interests

  • Business investment
  • Carbon budgets
  • Carbon capture and storage
  • Climate change
  • Competitiveness
  • Emissions
  • Energy and climate change
  • Energy and climate change
  • Growth
  • Industrial strategy
  • Innovation
  • Investment
  • Oil and Gas
  • Oil and gas
  • Renewable energy
  • Renewable energy
  • Science and society
  • Science funding