Supercritical funding boost for hydrogen distillery project

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A project to deploy high pressure zero emission hydrogen technology in a Scottish distillery has received a £2.94m funding boost.

WhiskHy, a consortium led by clean-tech start-up Supercritical in collaboration with Beam Suntory and the Manufacturing Technology Centre (MTC), has been awarded the funding in Phase 2 of the Green Distilleries Competition, which is supported through the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy’s (BEIS) Net Zero Innovation Portfolio.

Phase 2 follows the completion of a three-month feasibility study for Supercritical’s green hydrogen-based decarbonisation technology at Beam Suntory’s Ardmore distillery. This additional funding will enable the consortium to scale up and conduct an industrial hydrogen trial at Beam Suntory’s Glen Garioch distillery in Oldmeldrum, Aberdeenshire.

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Matt Bird, CEO at Supercritical said, “Supercritical is thriving in today’s drive to decarbonise and leading the transition for change in the UK’s clean-tech sector.  We welcome this continued support to bring our next generation electrolysis technology to the next level to help decarbonise the whisky sector in the UK, and look forward to the export opportunities that it will facilitate in zero-emission whisky as well as electrolyser technology.”

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