Rux Energy, was proud to host a prestigious side event as part of London International Shipping Week, showcasing advanced and innovative maritime decarbonisation technologies. The event was attended by nearly 100 senior leaders and policy makers across the British and European maritime sector.
The key message of from Rux Energy was: “Double-down on hydrogen technology investments because we are ready to power maritime without a price penalty”.
This was a knowledge-sharing event, co-hosted by Rux Energy and the Australian Trade & Investment Commission at Australia House. It featured major technology breakthroughs to decarbonise the maritime sector and the outcomes for the Hydrogen for Zero Emissions Maritime (HyZEM) Project, a consortium jointly-led by Rux Energy (Australia) and Steamology (UK) formed with co-funding from Innovate UK and the Australian Department of Climate Change Energy Environment and Water under the strategic bilateral initiative, the UK-Australia Renewable Hydrogen Innovation Partnership Programme.
HyZEM focussed on end-to-end innovations in hydrogen storage, propulsion and innovative workboat design. Partners in HyZEM also included the National Composites Centre (NCC), a leading UK Catapult and research institute in carbon-fibre composites, the Offshore Renewable Energy Catapult, DuoDrive, Carnot Engines and Chartwell Marine.
Following a technical briefing, leaders from Associated British Ports and CMB.tech joined an open panel discussion on critical policy and regulatory enablers to unlock accelerated decarbonisation in maritime.
Panelists pictured left to right: Moderator Rebecca Advani – Integrated Transport Team Senior Systems Engineer – Connected Places Catapult with Jamie Warner – Product Integration Manager – CMB.Tech, Max Harris – Head of Sustainability – Associated British Ports and Dr Jehan Kanga – Founder & CEO – Rux Energy.
The event underscored the vital importance of UK–Australia technology partnerships, and the key role governments must play in supporting cross-pollination of ideas to achieve high impact outcomes. Speakers highlighted the timely opportunity to double-down on hydrogen technology investments, supporting the UK and Australia’s ambition to become clean energy superpowers.
Delegates were welcomed by Ms Annika Barton, Australian Trade Commissioner for the UK and Ireland.
Commissioner Barton said:
“Cross-national collaboration of this scale and depth has never been more important, especially between the UK and Australia. Project HyZEM has demonstrated the enormous impact that can be delivered when we get the policy right.”
Ms Annika Barton, Australian Trade Commissioner for the UK and Ireland.
HyZEM exemplifies real-world progress in transforming existing vessels into low-carbon assets, cost-competitively with conventional diesel fuelled vessels, reinforcing industry pathways toward net-zero emissions.
Dr Jehan Kanga – Founder and CEO of Rux Energy said:
“We at Rux Energy are proud to present our trial results, as part of our strategic partnership with the National Composites Centre. Our technology leadership here shows us that hydrogen can be cost-competitive with fossil fuels, and sustained investment in multiple breakthrough technologies, stacked upon each other, will get us across the line. We are so grateful to the Australian government for the opportunity to catapult our technology towards commercialisation.”
