ScottishPower has hired Mark Griffin to take up the role of head of market development today, within its new hydrogen division.
Griffin has spent the past decade of his career focussing exclusively on hydrogen and its applications, including the hydrogen filling station project at Honda in Swindon and the multi-vehicle bus terminal in Aberdeen.
ScottishPower hydrogen director Barry Carruthers said: “We’re so pleased to welcome Mark to our growing hydrogen team.
“The knowledge and expertise he brings will help us continue our work to deliver green hydrogen solutions across the country.”
Griffin said he has seen a significant shift in green hydrogen’s prevalence in the low carbon conversation over the past decade.
“Ten years ago, hydrogen technology and its applications were really on the periphery. Now the knowledge and understanding of green hydrogen has increased ten-fold and I have no doubt it is set to continue to exponentially grow.”
Griffin’s role at ScottishPower begins as the company looks ahead to COP26, the UN’s Climate Change Conference of the Parties, for which ScottishPower is a principal partner.
The 12-day summit is being held in Glasgow and on the outskirts of the city will be ScottishPower’s green hydrogen facility, currently in planning.
The Green Hydrogen for Glasgow project will see the UK’s largest electrolyser, 20MW, installed at the site and aims to provide green hydrogen to the commercial market by 2023.
Griffin added: “It’s a very exciting time to join ScottishPower, COP26 means all eyes will be on Glasgow and the wider UK, looking at what we’re doing to reach our own climate targets and accelerate climate action.”
ScottishPower’s Green Hydrogen division was officially launched in December 2020.
Along with the Green Hydrogen for Glasgow project at Whitelee Windfarm, ScottishPower is working with Global Energy Group’s Port of Nigg site to investigate the potential of using green hydrogen to power some of their operations and is part of the North of Scotland Hydrogen Programme at the Port of Cromarty Firth.