The bid, partners explains in a press release, was put forward by a consortium led by industrial gases company BOC (UK and Ireland’s biggest industrial and medical gases producer), and including the Liverpool City Region Combined Authority and Arcola Energy, working with bus-makers Alexander Dennis, and will be progressed in conjunction with Arriva and Stagecoach, as members of the city region’s Bus Alliance.
The Liverpool City Region Hydrogen Bus Project will see the creation of a new hydrogen refuelling station at the BOC plant in St Helens, which produces hydrogen for industrial customers in the region and further afield. It will initially deliver 500kg of hydrogen every day
