'Green Day': Hydrogen and carbon capture developers celebrate 'huge progress'

Cecilia Keating
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The Hanson Cement plant in North Wales, which will advance to negotiations phase of government CCUS competition | Credit: HyNet
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The Hanson Cement plant in North Wales, which will advance to negotiations phase of government CCUS competition | Credit: HyNet

But high profile plans to install carbon capture at Drax bioenergy power plant in Yorkshire missed off initial list of projects progressing to next phase of CCUS competition

Green hydrogen and carbon capture developers around the UK are celebrating this morning, after Ministers announced the first hydrogen projects to clinch funding from the government's Net Zero Hydrogen...

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