bp to develop green hydrogen project in England

To be developed in multiple stages, HyGreen Teesside is expected to match production to demand ‎and build on experience to drive down costs. bp is aiming to start production by 2025, with an initial ‎phase of some 60 MWe of installed hydrogen production capacity. A Final Investment Decision (FID) on the ‎project is expected in 2023.‎

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

bp is working with industry, local administration such as Tees Valley Combined Authority (TVCA) ‎and the UK government to increase the pace of decarbonisation in transport.

Its blue and green hydrogen projects in Teesside, together with the proposed Net Zero Teesside ‎power project, are expected to further support economic development and regeneration in Teesside. ‎Creating high-quality jobs in both construction and operation phases, the projects will support local ‎education, skills development and the development catalyse a highly skilled UK-based hydrogen ‎supply chain.‎

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 project is expected to fuel the development of Teesside into one of the UK’s first major hydrogen ‎transport hubs for large-scale decarbonisation of heavy transport, airports, ports and ‎rail in the UK.

The combined 1.5 GW capacity of HyGreen Teesside and H2Teesside could deliver 30% of the UK ‎government’s target of developing 5 GW of hydrogen production by 2030. 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.

The company has already announced a series of Memoranda of Understanding (MoU) with potential industrial ‎customers for hydrogen in the Teesside area, including both existing and planned operations, as it ‎grows demand for the hydrogen expected to be produced by H2Teesside. It has also recently ‎signed an MoU with Daimler Truck to pilot both the development of hydrogen infrastructure and the ‎introduction of hydrogen-powered fuel-cell trucks in the UK.‎

HyGreen Teesside would be a further important step in the development of bp’s hydrogen business and ‎its first green hydrogen project in the UK. The company is pursuing proposed projects for green hydrogen ‎production at its refineries in Rotterdam in the Netherlands, Lingen in Germany and Castellon in Spain. ‎It has also carried out a feasibility study identifying opportunities for green hydrogen production in ‎Western Australia and was most recently chosen as the preferred bidder to develop a green hydrogen ‎production hub in Aberdeen, Scotland.

In its wider low carbon business, it has built a strong renewables pipeline of 23.3 GW, strengthening ‎confidence in its 2025 target of delivering 20 GW of developed renewables to FID.

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