GBIP USA: Opportunity for hydrogen solutions

Innovate UK's Global Business Innovation Programme (GBIP) helps businesses explore collaborative innovation in overseas markets

Innovate UK is currently accepting applications for up to 15 companies in the hydrogen sector to join their GBIP programme supported by research centres and businesses in Washington DC and California.

Participants will be provided with pre-visit support from an Innovate UK Business Growth Innovation and Growth Specialist, and will get a chance to:

• explore opportunities in hydrogen in the USA
• explore the challenges and opportunities of doing business in the USA
• find potential innovation collaborators and partners globally
• improve company value proposition to international partners and investors

The programme aims to foster and support collaborative research and development through UK and US partnerships.

Innovate UK welcomes applications from businesses developing innovative hydrogen solutions that can be exploited in small-medium industrial clusters or non-industrial clusters of any size.

Areas of focus are outlined below.

Hydrogen use solutions include:

• HGVs, marine and public transport and the associated infrastructure.
• Small-medium scale industrial hydrogen applications (particularly those that can be scaled).
• Any other use-case that can justifiably support a small-medium and/or non-industrial cluster (including those that may not have been explored thus far).

Hydrogen production solutions include:

• Renewable hydrogen.
• Hydrogen with CCS.
• Hydrogen from nuclear.
• Hydrogen from BECCS.

Storage and distribution solutions* include:

• Technologies that can integrate with others as more are deployed in the local vicinity.
• Approaches to repurposing hydrogen infrastructure in a modular way.

Enablers*:

• Manufacturing processes.
• Upskilling and reskilling.

* in the context of a small-medium scale cluster and/or a non-industrial cluster.

Find out more about this GBIP for hydrogen solutions.

Potential applicants can register to join an online briefing on 6 February 2024 to find out more.

For any additional information, you can contact Innovate UK Business Growth Project Manager in Northern Ireland, Alayne Kinver - Alayne.Kinver@innovateukedge.ukri.org.

First published 2 February 2024