Gasworld published an article in its October 2012 issue, highlighting the work and ambitions of the BCGA’s then new committee – TSC9.
It was preparing to embark on a major piece of work to write guidance on what would describe, and hopefully become a recognised reference document for the UK, for gaseous fuel filling stations.
In the 2012 article, you will recall that BCGA Chief Executive Doug Thornton felt that hydrogen fuel cell vehicle power was not getting the attention or investment it merited within the Government energy strategy and that an initial step towards raising it up the agenda would be to establish nationally (and hopefully internationally) recognised best practice guidance, which would adequately describe the engineering, safety and product quality standards needed.
Many parties had written guidance on some aspects of that, but no-one had pulled the whole picture together in one document. As things stood, Government thrust and support was largely around electric vehicles – but the ‘green’ case for such is quite arguable.
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