bp to build a major green hydrogen project in the UK

bp plans to build a large-scale green hydrogen production facility in the North East of England that could deliver up to 500Mwe (megawatt electrical input) of hydrogen production ‎by 2030.

HyGreen Teesside will be developed on different stages to match production to demand ‎and build on experience to drive down costs. It is expected to start production by 2025, with an initial ‎phase of some 60MWe of installed hydrogen production capacity. 

“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,” said Louise Jacobsen Plutt, bp’s Senior Vice President for hydrogen and CCUS.

bp said that a final investment decision on the ‎project is expected in 2023.‎

Hygreen Teesside is the latest addition to the company’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.

‎“This exciting project builds on our ongoing development of hydrogen in the area through the Tees Valley Hydrogen Transport Hub. It’ll help pave the way for its use across all transport modes, creating high-quality, green jobs in the process,” said Transport Secretary Grant Shapps.

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