Nottinghamshire-based GeoPura, an organization specialised in inexperienced hydrogen, introduced on Thursday that it has secured £56M (roughly €65.6M) in funding.
The UK Infrastructure Financial institution dedicated £30M to the spherical, led by a follow-on funding from Barclays Sustainable Influence Capital and supported by our present traders: GM Ventures, SWEN Capital Companions, and Siemens Vitality Ventures.
As well as, GeoPura will broaden its manufacturing of inexperienced hydrogen, serving to to rework an outdated coal energy station web site as a part of the HyMarnham Energy Inexperienced Hydrogen challenge within the East Midlands.
The announcement comes 12 months after elevating £36M.
GeoPura: Decarbonising international economies
Based in 2019, GeoPura goals to decarbonise international economies by sourcing renewable vitality to maneuver away from fossil fuels and navigate the logistical problems with getting this vitality to the place it’s wanted.
Andrew Cunningham, CEO of GeoPura, says, “Having skilled the most well liked 12 months on file in 2023 with the destructive affect of utmost climate occasions rising globally each month, our have to fight local weather change has by no means been extra pressing. Now, greater than ever, we have to act and supply the business with confirmed and efficient options to attain their Web Zero targets and permit them to scale back their legal responsibility for destroying air high quality with particulates, NOx, and different dangerous emissions from conventional turbines.”
The GeoPura resolution makes use of renewable vitality, usually photo voltaic PV or wind, to create hydrogen and hydrogen-based zero-emission fuels. This gas is then transported to areas the place an area generator converts it to electrical energy.
“The problem of changing the estimated $300B put in base of extremely polluting diesel turbines over the subsequent ten years is important and requires the size and dedication that traders resembling UKIB and our present extremely supportive shareholders and companions present,” provides Cunningham.
GeoPura has hubs situated in Nottingham, Matlock, Sheffield, and Newcastle upon Tyne within the UK.
They’re collaborating with their associate Siemens Vitality to mass manufacture HPUs. Their objective is to deploy a fleet of over 3,600 HPUs by 2033. These HPUs will present clear, low-cost, and dependable energy.
John Flint, CEO of UK Infrastructure Financial institution, says, “Our funding in GeoPura is one other instance of our problem-solving in motion. By eradicating obstacles to funding within the hydrogen sector – a vital nascent market on the path to web zero – we’re making a sustainable platform to finance extra inexperienced hydrogen tasks quickly.”
James Ferrier, Director, Principal Investments, Barclays Sustainable Influence Capital provides, “Scaling new local weather applied sciences – like GeoPura’s HPUs – shall be vital in decarbonising the UK economic system, as sectors with no present viable options to fossil fuels look to our home-grown entrepreneurs for revolutionary options to assist them lower emissions. GeoPura’s work is extremely thrilling in that they’re serving to to speed up the UK’s adoption of inexperienced hydrogen by concurrently addressing provide and demand whereas constructing the workforce of the long run. We look ahead to seeing GeoPura’s progress over the approaching years.”
