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The HEA invites members to influence the direction of the Hydrogen and CCS Skills Accelerator Pilot, funded by DESNZ with £400,000.
The pilot is running from September 2025 to March 2026 in South-West (focusing on HyHaul) and in the North-West (focusing on HyNet). Building on the Hydrogen Strategic Skills Plan, the Accelerator will provide some insight around skills availability, build capacity across regions, provide a legacy of open-source programmes and materials, alongside creating options for future skills programmes.
The webinar, together with the Hydrogen Skills Alliance, and the team running the pilot, will provide some background about that the Accelerator and its areas of focus, provide an update on progress and encourage a two-way discussion around proposed next steps, alongside a Q & A session.
The presentation will be made by the Project Lead, Jude Knight, Head of Low Carbon Skills at Cogent Skills alongside Debbie Baker, who is working on next steps.
Lee is currently CEO of Fuel Cell Systems Ltd (FCSL). Industry insiders often talk about Hydrogen’s Chicken and Egg problem: Vehicle manufacturers cannot sell hydrogen vehicles without a refuelling infrastructure; Infrastructure & fuel network providers cannot recoup their investment if there are not enough vehicles using hydrogen. The result is Gridlock! Our approach has been to redefine the Chicken and Egg problem as simply “Refuelling Infrastructure is too expensive”. Now that’s an engineering problem we can fix!
Prior to FCSL, Lee spent eight years at UK Fuel Cell manufacturer Intelligent Energy, completing his time there as Chief Sales Officer. Leading the global commercial team and launching Intelligent Energy’s low carbon hydrogen products in to three market sectors: automotive, power generation and aviation. Lee’s involvement with the hydrogen industry started back in 1995 when among other projects he supported the field trials of SOFC CHP.
