Speaking at the UN climate change conference in Glasgow, Scotland, clean energy solutions provider Unitrove said its facility is vital to fuel an international shipping industry that accounts for around one billion tonnes of global carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions a year.<\/p>\n
\u201cTo achieve net zero by 2050 needs the combined will of the industry and governments. As well as building new vessels, we need to ensure the infrastructure is in place. At this moment in time, there\u2019s no clean-fuel bunkering infrastructure \u2013 it\u2019s practically non-existent,\u201d said Steven Lua, CEO of Leicestershire-based Unitrove.<\/p>\n
\u201cWithout zero-emission fuelling infrastructure, the drive for zero-emission ships will falter. In terms of infrastructure, there\u2019s nothing significant in place today, but we are here to change that.\u201d<\/p>\n
From LNG to hydrogen<\/strong><\/p>\n Having already successfully delivered the UK\u2019s first LNG bunkering facility at Teesport in May 2015, Lua said he believes liquid hydrogen will play a vital role in the development of clean, affordable, reliable, and sustainable fuelling options, especially for larger sea vessels.<\/p>\n Lua added that liquid hydrogen as a commercial fuel was relatively unexplored as an option \u2013 but that it had great potential for many uses, including plugging the gap where electric and compressed hydrogen cannot reach.<\/p>\n \u201cWe already see very early signs of light-duty vessels being battery-driven or powered by compressed gaseous hydrogen, but liquid hydrogen will allow us to serve the heavier portion of the shipping fleet where we hope to have a much larger impact.<\/p>\n The company is also exploring options including ammonia, liquid organic hydrogen carriers and solid hydrogen.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The world\u2019s first liquid hydrogen bunkering unit for zero-emission ships has been unveiled at COP26.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":1714,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"sponsor":[],"class_list":["post-1713","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-alternative-fuels-greenport"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1713","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1713"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1713\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1715,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1713\/revisions\/1715"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1714"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1713"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1713"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1713"},{"taxonomy":"sponsor","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/sponsor?post=1713"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}