Shropshire’s potential for hydrogen vehicle refuelling hub
11/11/2021
Shropshire could become one of a handful of West Midlands locations to have a hydrogen refuelling hub to power low carbon vehicles of the future. As part of its drive to reduce its carbon emissions to zero by 2030, Shropshire Council is now exploring whether it can set up a hydrogen refuelling centre on the outskirts of Shrewsbury for commercial vehicles. The site, which would use electricity generated from council-contracted waste operator Veolia’s Energy Recovery Facility (ERF) at Battlefield to turn rainwater into hydrogen and oxygen. The Battlefield ERF converts residual waste unsuitable for recycling and composting into heat and power, and has significantly reduced the amount of wast
