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KEADBY GAS POWER PLANT
EQUINOR TO TRIPLE UK HYDROGEN OUTPUT

WITH NEW PLANT NEAR HULL

NORWAY’S STATE OIL company Anders Opedal, Chief Executive of to supply the Saltend Chemicals Park
Equinor will triple its UK hydrogen Equinor, told The Guardian that the and Saltend Power Station. The 600MW
output, after setting out plans to company plans to produce another project will extract hydrogen from
build the world’s biggest hydrogen 1,200MW of blue hydrogen in the traditional fossil gas, leaving carbon
production plant with carbon capture Humber area to help supply the Keadby dioxide which it plans to trap and store
and storage technology near Hull. hydrogen power plant. using carbon capture technology.
Equinor plans to produce clean-burning He said that without hydrogen and Hydrogen is considered an important
'blue hydrogen' to supply the Keadby gas carbon capture technology there was part of the UK’s plan to reduce its carbon
power plant in Lincolnshire, owned by “no viable path to net zero and realising emissions because it could replace fossil
energy company SSE, making it the world’s the Paris goals”. gas used in factories and power plants,
first full-scale power plant to burn pure Earlier this year, Equinor and SSE set and help to reduce the UK’s reliance on
hydrogen to generate electricity. out plans to produce enough hydrogen fossil fuels for transport and heating.

NGN TO TEST GAS NETWORK PROCEDURES FOR SUITABILITY IN CARRYING HYDROGEN

NORTHERN GAS NETWORKS The proposal for South Bank is part and reliable source of heat and could
(NGN) has been granted permission of the next phase of the H21 project, offer the least disruptive and most
by Redcar and Cleveland Borough a major collaborative UK gas industry cost-efficient transition to net zero
Council to use an area of disused hydrogen programme being led by for most homes.
land to test standard gas network NGN to assess the suitability for the The site has been chosen because
procedures using hydrogen. UK’s gas network to carry hydrogen. around 70 homes had previously
This will be tested in an area of A hydrogen-fuelled gas network been demolished on the land around
Middlesbrough called South Bank, would make use of the vast assets a decade ago, but the services are still
reports H2 View. which already deliver a safe, resilient intact including gas pipes.

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