HI-ACT Webinar: Future Hydrogen Systems - A North East and North West Perspectives

Developing a hydrogen economy is a whole-UK story. Listen to our two experts, Professor Joeseph Howe from Chester University and Keith Owen from Northern Gas Networks, discuss recent and upcoming hydrogen system initiatives. Both speakers gave insights in to the North West Hydrogen Alliance , HyNet the backbone for hydrogen distribution and Whitby and Redcar Hydrogen Trials. The webinar ended with a great discussion around public perceptions on hydrogen, future plans and what barriers need to be overcome to a fully integrated hydrogen economy.

Useful links:
HI-ACT: https://www.gla.ac.uk/research/az/hiact/
Prof Joseph Howe: https://www.linkedin.com/in/joseph-ho...
Keith Owen: https://www.linkedin.com/in/keithowen...
North West Hydrogen Alliance: https://www.nwhydrogenalliance.co.uk/
HyNet: https://hynet.co.uk/
East Coast Hydrogen Network: https://cadentgas.com/news-media/news...
Whitby Hydrogen Trails: https://hydrogenvillage.com/
Redcar Hydrogen Trails: https://redcarhydrogencommunity.co.uk/
Hy4Heat: https://www.hy4heat.info/

Speaker Biographies:

Professor Joseph Howe has extensive experience in working interchangeably with industry on major environmental projects and initiatives across the UK, including the opportunities afforded to UK industry in delivering of the £600bn of infrastructure projects by 2030. Joe is pro-actively engaged with the UK’s emerging clean growth agenda including his roles on the UK Decarbonised of Gas Alliance, chairing of the NW Hydrogen Alliance and being the North West academic lead for the UK Industrial Decarbonisation Research and Innovation Centre. Joe is particularly passionate about the STEM skills and sits on the Board of the Department of Education: Engineering Construction Industries Training Board.

Keith Owen is Head of Systems Development and Energy Strategy at Northern Gas Networks. His areas of interest and skill sets align to the identification of new and existing technologies to progress the transition to low carbon gas infrastructure, to support the government climate changes targets (NetZero) through to 2050. He is responsible to research across a range of themes such as digital, heat, transport, customer vulnerability and whole systems looking across gas, electricity water and communication networks, considering the energy transition to net zero through a whole energy systems approach. Keith is actively involved with a range of universities, notably Newcastle, Durham and Northumbria, a board member of the North East Energy Catalyst, a member of the Industrial Advisory Board for the Supergen Network and, the recently finished project National Centre for Energy Systems Integration (CESI). He also chairs the IGEM Hydrogen committee tasked with management and development of new hydrogen standards for the gas industry.