Power Generation | Hydrogen and Fuel Cells

UK fuel cell pioneers to benefit from £1 million boost

The Carbon Trust announced a £1 million boost for UK fuel cell pioneers ACAL Energy and ITM Power and an academic research project.

The two northern-based companies will share £500,000 to develop a new hybrid high-power, low-cost fuel cell design.

The remaining £500,000 will fund a joint project between Imperial College London and University College London (UCL) to lower the cost of producing fuel cells by using high-volume manufacturing techniques for printed circuit boards.

The Carbon Trust is making the awards as past of its Polymer Fuel Cells Challenge (PFCC), which was launched in 2009 to support the UK government’s objective to lower the costs of fuel cells.

“The UK’s home-grown automotive industry hasn’t been the runaway success story many would have hoped for, but British technology is in pole position to be under the bonnet of a next generation of mass-produced hydrogen-powered cars,” says Ben Graziano of the Carbon Trust.

Fuel cell technology is now a potential source of growth for the UK economy, he adds.

For further information:
www.carbontrust.co.uk/
www.acalenergy.co.uk/
www.itm-power.com/
www3.imperial.ac.uk/
www.ucl.ac.uk

22 February 2012

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