It has been welcomed by business and the unions, coming only a week after job losses from the closures of Port Talbot Steelworks and Ratcliffe coal power station. The authorities hopes to fund the first large-scale hydrogen production plant in the UK, and help the oil and gas sector and its transferable skills transfer over to green industries. It will be break up between three initiatives, which are capturing carbon dioxide released both from making hydrogen, generating gas Technology News power or burning waste to create energy from 2028. Today the federal government has committed up to £21.7bn over 25 years, to be given in subsidies to sites within the Teesside and Merseyside “clusters” – from 2028. Carbon capture, utilisation and storage has been developed to fight local weather change. The plans are designed to generate private funding and jobs in Merseyside and Teesside, two industry-heavy areas that shall be …