ITM Power in Sheffield, U.K., the world’s largest green hydrogen electrolyzer factory. (Courtesy of ITM Power)
Green hydrogen has been dubbed the “dream, green fuel.” Created by electrolyzers that pass electricity — generated by renewable energy — through water, the gas is completely carbon-free.
The by-products from producing and burning it are oxygen and water. Prime Minister Boris Johnson is so enamored of the fuel that he has promised that the U.K. will become one of the world’s biggest suppliers — as big a producer of hydrogen as the Gulf state of Qatar is of natural gas.
That aim may not seem unrealistic, as the world’s largest manufacturer of electrolyzers, ITM Power, is based in the city of Sheffield in the north of England. If the scramble to generate green hydrogen is like an old-fashioned gold rush, this company…