Lancaster Expert Helping to Solve the Energy Crisis

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Lancaster University Professor Roger Kemp is part of a team evaluating policy options for incorporating hydrogen into the UK’s energy systems.

Lancaster University Professor Roger Kemp is part of a team evaluating policy options for incorporating hydrogen into the UK’s energy systems.

Roger Kemp, Emeritus Professor in the School of Engineering, is a member of the National Engineering Policy Centre working group on decarbonisation policy. The NEPC is a partnership of 42 professional engineering organisations, led by the Royal Academy of Engineering, which informs government policy.

Professor Kemp is a member of a small group briefing government ministers on aspects of energy policy, with the latest NEPC report examining the role of hydrogen in the push for Net Zero.

“Part of this work has involved the practicalities around the use of hydrogen as a means of equalising out the peaks and troughs of demand (almost everyone switching on their heating between 06:00 and 08:00 in winter) and of supply (a wind-free, overcast weekend).”

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