Air Products’ Business Development Manager for Hydrogen Energy has detailed the company’s plans for a hydrogen transport network in London. Speaking at a fuel cell ferry event in Bristol, Emma Guthrie said that Air Products expected to add two new fuelling stations in London in the near future to create a network of five.
Air Products has already installed two central London located fuelling stations at Heathrow and in East London, but now has plans for another East London station and a second centrally located fuelling station as part of the CHIC (Clean Hydrogen In European Cities) Project, which saw the Transport for London hydrogen bus station installed in December 2010. The fifth station in the network is just north of London at the Millbrook Proving Ground in Bedford.
The event in Bristol focused on Air Products’ latest hydrogen transport project, a 12-seater hydrogen powered passenger ferry built by Bristol Hydrogen Boats – a consortium of No 7 Boat Trips, the Bristol Packet, and Auriga Energy, supported by Bristol City Council, which will transport commuters and tourists around Bristol harbour for six hours a day powered by a 12kW fuel cell.
