AFC Energy chief executive Adam Bond spoke to Katie for a catch-up after the company announced a key new deal with UK construction firm Kier Group.
The deal with Kier further validates the fuel-cell firm’s technology and more specifically the company’s focus on temporary power generation for the construction industry.
War in Ukraine and rising inflation have added economic priorities to environmental pressures that see increasing interest in fuel cell technologies developed to displace hydrocarbon-based fuels for power, especially for diesel generators used on building sites, AFC chief executive Adam Bond told Proactive.
Kier, which targets net-zero operations by 2045, is taking a hydrogen power generator unit for a project in the south west of England in what will be the first hydrogen fuel cell deployment undertaken by Kier. It will be a pilot ahead of what could be a more involved collaboration, with additional systems potentially being supplied through 2023.
Amid social, environmental and economic forces the marketplace is expected to flourish with opportunities in the coming years.
“If councils want to go green, and the construction companies want to go green, and the plant hire business wants to go green, then that whole ecosystem has to move away from diesel and towards something like what we’re offering in the market today.”
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