Energy company Hygen is to develop its pipeline of more than 300MW of projects across the UK in advance of a second round of funding scheduled for the second half of 2023.

The company is set to deliver its first clean hydrogen projects after raising £27m in funding from HyCap, a joint venture between clean energy pioneer Jo Bamford, and Armstrong Capital Management. The new company will build, own and operate commercial scale hydrogen production facilities across the UK.

Last month, it was announced that gas distributor Northern Gas Networks (NGN) had partnered with Hygen and Ryze Hydrogen to work on an ambitious low carbon hydrogen production and dispensing facility in the heart of Bradford.

NGN, the gas distributor for the North East, Cumbria and much of Yorkshire, is carrying out the project in a joint venture with the two companies. The project will be built on NGN’s decommissioned gas storage site of Bowling Back Lane in the heart of Bradford. It will deliver one of the UK’s largest low carbon hydrogen production facilities with a clear objective of using renewable energy to power an electrolyser which will produce clean hydrogen. The site will also have on-site refuelling for hydrogen vehicles, EV charging, and a low carbon technology education centre. Residents and businesses in West Yorkshire will be able to use the refuelling facilities, with Ryze supplying hydrogen to transport and industrial users across the region.

Hygen’s short-term focus is to produce hydrogen for Ryze to supply to transport, as these projects can benefit from subsidies under the Renewable Transport Fuel Obligation (RTFO), enabling well designed hydrogen projects to be cost competitive with diesel.

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