Dr Andrew Woods, CEO at CATAGEN welcomed UK Minister of Science Nusrat Ghani to its Belfast Net Zero Technologies Centre on Tuesday 11th October.
The CATAGEN team showcased its new net zero prototypes that have been funded by the UK Department of Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy including the Green Hydrogen Generator and E-Fuel Generator.
CATAGEN, a leading net zero emissions and air quality technology company is successfully developing a range of new technologies focused on cleaning and decarbonising the air, as part of its mission to deliver greener and healthier environments.
UK Science Minister Nusrat Ghani said: “Technologies like green hydrogen which are being pioneered here at CATAGEN can help end our dependency on volatile and expensive fossil fuels, and support our transition to clean, affordable, home-grown energy. We are determined to support companies like these, creating high-skill jobs and fuelling economic growth across every part of the UK.”
In the last year alone, the company has successfully patent protected five new technologies and the company is focused on accelerating its efforts to prove and deploy innovative new climate tech systems to create an alternative to fossil fuels for difficult to decarbonise sectors.
Dr Andrew Woods, CEO at CATAGEN, said “As well as offering an enormous economic opportunity for the region, deploying these technologies at an industrial scale will help to address the challenge posed by increasing energy costs and the rising and very real threats posed by climate change. We are seeing tremendous demand for these innovations across many markets but there are steps still to take to make our climate technology system a mass deployed commercial reality. We welcome having Minister Ghani onsite today to showcase the wonderful work and ingenuity displayed by our brightest minds who are working on this exciting and challenging endeavour.”
CATAGEN’s technology poses a real opportunity for the renewable energy sector in the UK and Ireland to store and utilise energy in the form of green hydrogen, bio-hydrogen or e-fuel, providing energy security on these shores and the capability to export the technology and expertise overseas.
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It welcomes any intervention to increase the number of onshore and offshore wind and other renewable developments to support this goal. CATAGEN is on track to deliver full scale demonstrators in 2024 and plans to scale the business significantly in the next 3-5 years.
The company actively supports the STEM sector and sees Net Zero as a flourishing employment opportunity for Northern Ireland for the next 50 years plus. It was the first company in Northern Ireland to receive an UKRI Future Leadership Fellowship Award and has supported many of its team to PhD level.
Source: Written from press release.
