Kwasi Kwarteng, UK minister for business, enterprise and industrial strategy
Imminent UK hydrogen strategy will look at blue as well as green
Strategy will differ from EU and German models in that state spending will be lower and focus will be on blue and green hydrogen
The UK hydrogen strategy will be published in the "next few weeks"—potentially during parliament’s summer recess—and will have more of a focus on blue hydrogen than other national strategies, according to minister for business, enterprise and industrial strategy (Beis), Kwasi Kwarteng. The government would normally publish such a strategy while parliament was sitting in order to allow MPs and Lords in the upper house a chance to scrutinise it. But given the urgency of the strategy, Beis wants to publish it during a parliamentary recess. “A whole community out there is waiting for the hydrogen strategy, and we will try to get it out as soon as possible,” said Kwarteng. “We are investing
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