BP plans 1GW ‘blue’ hydrogen project at Teesside

Blue hydrogen involves breaking down methane (CH₄) into its constituent components, harvesting the hydrogen for energy use and capturing and storing the carbon dioxide that results from the process.

According to BP, the proposed H2Teesside facility will tap into existing North Sea gas infrastructure to produce around 1GW of blue hydrogen by 2030, capturing and storing up to two million tonnes of CO₂ per year. The UK government has set an overall target of 5GW of hydrogen production by the end of the decade.

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“Clean hydrogen is an essential complement to electrification on the path to net zero,” said Dev Sanyal, BP’s executive vice president of gas and low carbon energy. “Blue hydrogen, integrated with carbon capture and storage, can provide the scale and reliability needed by industrial processes. It can also play an essential role in decarbonising hard-to-electrify industries and driving down the cost of the energy transition.”