BP Plans Green H2 Plant in UK, Expects to Deliver 500 Mwe by 2030

Highlights :

  • The company is aiming to start production by 2025, with an initial ‎phase of some 60MWe of installed hydrogen production capacity.
  • A final investment decision on the ‎project is expected in 2023.
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BP is planning a new large-scale green hydrogen production facility, HyGreen Teesside, in the North East of England that could deliver up to 500 Mwe (megawatt electrical input) of hydrogen production ‎by 2030.

The company is aiming to start production by 2025, with an initial ‎phase of some 60MWe of installed hydrogen production capacity. A final investment decision on the ‎project is expected in 2023.‎

Hygreen Teesside is the latest addition to bp’s integrated UK business portfolio, which includes 3GW ‎gross of offshore wind in the Irish Sea, delivering 16,000 UK charging points by 2030 and bp and ‎Aberdeen city’s partnership deal, an official statement said.

bp states that it is working with industry, local administration such as Tees Valley Combined Authority (TVCA) ‎and the UK government to increase the pace of decarbonization in transport. The company expects its blue and green hydrogen projects in Teesside, together with the proposed Net Zero Teesside ‎power project, to support economic development and regeneration in Teesside.

Louise Jacobsen Plutt, bp’s senior vice president for hydrogen and CCUS, said: “Low carbon ‎hydrogen will be essential in decarbonizing hard-to-abate industrial sectors including heavy transport. ‎Together, HyGreen and H2Teesside can help transform Teesside into the UK’s green heart, ‎strengthening its people, communities and businesses. This is exactly the type of energy we want to ‎create and more importantly deliver.”

The combined 1.5GW capacity of HyGreen Teesside and H2Teesside could deliver 30% of the UK ‎government’s target of developing 5GW of hydrogen production by 2030, says the company. Industries in Teesside ‎account for over 5% of the UK’s industrial emissions and the region is home to five of the country’s ‎top 25 emitters.

Tees Valley Mayor Ben Houchen said: “We’re quickly becoming ‎the go-to place for innovation in the hydrogen sector, thanks to our status as the UK’s first Hydrogen ‎Transport Hub and bp’s commitment with other schemes, such as Net Zero Teesside and ‎H2Teesside.”‎

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