Environment Agency: Blue hydrogen plants should aim for at least 95 per cent CO2 capture rate

Cecilia Keating
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Environment Agency: Blue hydrogen plants should aim for at least 95 per cent CO2 capture rate

Regulator publishes first guidance for businesses looking to develop plants that produce hydrogen from fossil gas and capture the resulting emissions

Companies planning to produce hydrogen from fossil gas in the UK will have to prove their plants capture at least 95 per cent of the carbon generated in the process for storage or reuse, according to government...

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