Energy News – December 2024
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Derby-based manufacturing giant Rolls-Royce is set to benefit from a £1bn investment in climate technology into the UK by Qatar.
The Government has hailed the “groundbreaking” deal, which it says will create thousands of skilled jobs and see the launch of world-leading climate technology hubs across the UK and Qatar to accelerate development in climate-friendly technologies.
This includes investment in technology programmes by British engineering giant Rolls-Royce that improve energy efficiency, support new sustainable fuels and lower carbon emissions. It will also see investment into start-ups in the UK and Qatar focusing on energy efficiency, carbon management, and green power.
The future of hydrogen as a credible source of energy and a key plank of the North West’s future green industrial strategy is under scrutiny in a new University of Manchester study. It has just published ‘On Hydrogen’, which provides expert analysis, evidence and policy recommendations to tackle the UK’s key hydrogen policy challenges.
In a foreword, Baroness Brown of Cambridge, Chair of the House of Lords Science and Technology Select Committee, warns that “the hydrogen bubble has burst.”
