The Hydrogen in Aviation Alliance (HIA) launched late last year and has this week warned that breakthroughs in hydrogen-powered mobility pioneered by businesses and academics “will be inconsequential” if they are not supported to commercial maturity “with the appropriate skills, infrastructure, investment and regulation”.
Members of the alliance include Rolls-Royce, Bristol Airport, easyJet and Airbus – the latter of which is striving to commercially operate 100% hydrogen fuelled passenger planes with at least 100 seats by 2035.
These businesses are warning that the UK will only deliver the ambitions of the ‘Jet Zero Strategy’, which sets a 2040 net-zero target for domestic flights and a 2050 deadline for international routes, if Ministers take swift, strategic, joined-up decisions to scale hydrogen technologies.
Avation PLC (LON:AVAP) is a commercial passenger aircraft leasing company owning a fleet of aircraft which it leases to airlines across the world. Avation’s future focus are new technology low CO2 emission aircraft.
