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Sheffield’s ITM Power wins £2.8 million London electric car refuelling station contract

Sheffield’s ITM Power, the energy storage and clean fuel company, has announced that it has won a contract to supply three of its electrolyser-based refuelling stations to London.

The contract is worth approximately £2.8 million (€3.3m) to ITM Power and brings the total value of product build under contract to £6.6m.

This is under the EU FCH JU funded HyFive project announced by the Mayor of London’s Office.

The three stations will be the first green hydrogen deployments in London and are expected to be operational in time to coincide with the roll out of fuel cell electric vehicles planned by the major OEM’s.

Global leaders have signed a £31m plan to demonstrate the commercial case for hydrogen vehicles.

Motor manufacturers, hydrogen fuel suppliers, the Mayor of London’s Office and energy consultancies from around the globe are signing up to the HyFive project, the largest of its kind in Europe, at City Hall in London today.

Five different manufacturers have agreed to deploy a total of 110 hydrogen fuel cell vehicles at several European locations (Bolzano, Copenhagen, Innsbruck, London, Munich, Stuttgart) and develop new clusters of hydrogen refuelling stations.

The Mayor of London, Boris Johnson, said: “To sell this technology we need to show Londoners and the wider world that it is not science fiction.

“By building the vehicles and the filling stations and allowing people to kick the tyres we will be able to demonstrate that hydrogen is a viable option and that London is at the forefront of efforts to make it so.”

This was posted in Bdaily's Members' News section by Clare Burnett .