A diverse, multidisciplinary team led by EnerHy’s Dr Jonathan Wilson and Professor Dani Strickland have been shortlisted for Loughborough University’s Vice-Chancellor’s Awards, in a record year for nominations.
Just under 400 nominations were received from Schools and Professional Services across the university’s Loughborough and London campuses. To be shortlisted for an award illustrates the high regard in which the battery-electrolyser project is held.
The team has delivered a world-first innovation in green hydrogen production: a hybrid lead-acid battery-electrolyser that combines energy storage and hydrogen generation in one recyclable, low-cost device.
Spanning all career stages from PhD researchers to senior academics and technicians the team exemplifies inclusive, collaborative research. Their work tackles a global challenge: making green hydrogen affordable and scalable using abundant, proven materials.
This summer, the first full-scale unit will be deployed in Malawi to power a rural hospital and provide hydrogen for clean cooking as part of the £1.5M Innovate UK MESCH project. Further deployments take place in Zambia and Ivoire this Autumn as part of the10M Horizon Europe LoCEL-H2 project.
In the UK, the team is scaling manufacturing at Loughborough University Science and Enterprise Park via the East Midlands Zero Carbon Innovation Centre, supported by £0.95M seed funding.
This nomination recognises not just a technological breakthrough, but the talented and extremely hard-working team behind it. We wish them all the best of luck for the Vice-Chancellor’s Awards in September.