Wales' Hydrogen Energy Vision

Wales has a number of advantages that can be utilized in the transition to a hydrogen economy:

• Our abundant renewable resources provide an opportunity to clean up our energy system. However, one major part of our energy demand is still almost totally dependent on oil-based products, namely transport. Combining our renewable assets with the production of hydrogen can start to overcome the dependence of our transport sector on oil and provide significant environmental benefits.
• We possess exceptional competence in a number of industries with direct relevance to the hydrogen economy, namely the automotive, chemical, metals, and microelectronic industries as well as our long-standing expertise in agriculture. To turn this to our competitive advantage will require vision, collaboration and determination.
• The National Assembly for Wales (NAfW) has a distinctive statutory duty to promote sustainable development and has set challenging goals for the adoption of renewable energy, seeks to promote renewables to enhance industrial, rural and commercial opportunities and positions Wales as a renewable energy showcase.

What matters now is how we chose to use these advantages in pursuit of a cleaner future energy system. We face a number of challenges in the transition to a hydrogen economy, but the Vision document outlined how these challenges can be addressed and this transition can be to Wales advantage.

Click here to download the document "A Vision of the Hydrogen Economy in Wales: Placing Wales in a position to take full advantage of the hydrogen economy"