Offshore staff
WINDSOR, UK – Centrica and Lhyfe have entered a memorandum of understanding (MoU) to jointly develop offshore renewable green hydrogen in the UK.
This could involve collaboration on a pilot site in the southern North Sea, combining Lhyfe’s green hydrogen production technology with Centrica’s experience of offshore gas storage and related infrastructure to demonstrate safe storage, along with production and distribution.
Both companies will also investigate deploying the technology at commercial scale alongside offshore wind electricity production.
Martin Scargill, managing director of Centrica Storage, said, “Hydrogen is going to play a key role in decarbonizing the UK’s power supply by 2035 and our long-term ambition is for Rough, our gas storage site, to be the world’s largest hydrogen store, offering up to 16TWh of storage capacity. This pilot will show how green hydrogen can be produced, moved and stored in the UK market.”
The UK government is said to be targeting 10 GW of low-carbon hydrogen production target by 2030, with at least half of this coming from green hydrogen (generated via offshore wind power).
And hydrogen production is set to support planned decarbonization projects for Britain’s industrial regions such as the Humber cluster on the English east coast.
03.20.2023
