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Equinor, SSE plan world’s biggest

hydrogen power station

NORWAY NORWEGIAN oil firm Equinor and UK utility for development consent this spring. Equinor
SSE have teamed up to develop what would be and SSE expect the station to be operational
The first hydrogen the world’s first hydrogen-fired power plant in in 2027.
production unit northern England. “These world-leading power plants at Keadby
expected online in The UK government is pushing for large- will accelerate efforts across the Humber to cre-
the Humber region is scale hydrogen development as a means of ate a decarbonised industrial cluster, and con-
Equinor’s H2H Saltend decarbonising some of the country’s most car- tribute to the UK’s goals for a green industrial
project. bon-intensive industries. The Keadby hydrogen revolution and reaching net zero,” Equinor said.
power station is to be built in North Lincoln- The power plants will serve a role in the Zero
shire, helping to reduce emissions from the Carbon Humber (ZCH) initiative that also
Humber region, the UK’s biggest industrial clus- involves Equinor and SSE. ZCH aims to estab-
ter. It will boast a 900-MW capacity and will run lish blue hydrogen production in the region as
on 100% hydrogen, consuming a peak of 1,800 well as the infrastructure to supply it to energy
MW of the fuel. consumers and capture industrial emissions and
“It would be the world’s first major 100% store them offshore.
hydrogen-fired power station, securing at-scale The first hydrogen production unit antici-
demand for hydrogen in the region for decades pated to start up as part of ZCH will be Equinor’s
to come,” Equinor said. “With appropriate policy H2H Saltend project, which has a 600-MW
mechanisms in place, Keadby Hydrogen could projected capacity and is slated for launch in the
come online before the end of this decade.” 2020s.
Equinor and SSE are also planning to build Hydrogen could also be supplied to the
the 900-MW gas-fired Keadby 3 power plant in Keadby 2 project, a 900-MW combined-cycle
Lincolnshire, fitted with carbon-capture tech- gas turbine plant that SSE is developing sepa-
nology to make its power clean. This captured rately using technology provided by Siemens.
CO2 would then be piped offshore for storage in The plant is expected up and running next year
the North Sea. and will be the cleanest and most-efficient gas-
Formal consultation on the project was fin- fired power station in Europe, according to
ished early this year, and the plan is to apply SSE.™

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