HyNet hydrogen project gets £13m funding boost

Based in and around Ellesmere Port south of Liverpool on the River Mersey, HyNet has two separate but complementary strands, both of which are claimed to be the first of their kind. The first strand, which has received £7.5m of funding, will see the development of a new low-carbon hydrogen production plant. The facility will be located at Essar Oil UK’s Stanlow refinery in Ellesmere Port and will produce 3TWh of hydrogen annually, doubling the UK’s capacity. According to the HyNet consortium, the new plant will capture and store more than 95 per cent of the carbon it creates during the hydrogen production process, totalling around 600,000 tonnes of CO₂ per year.

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“The Committee on Climate Change is absolutely clear that to deliver Net Zero, hydrogen and carbon capture and storage are going to be a necessity,” said David Parkin, spokesperson for the North West Hydrogen Alliance (NWHA) and director at Progressive Energy, which is leading development on both aspects of HyNet.