Launch of new Humber Hydrogen Hub projects in Parliament

The latest in a series of Hydrogen Hub launches in Parliament

The plans, which include the transformation of the Easington gas terminal, were launched yesterday in the Houses of Parliament to an audience of MPs, civil servants, industry bodies and regional stakeholders. Lord Callanan, the Energy Minister responsible for Hydrogen and Carbon Capture policy, spoke at the event alongside Beverley & Holderness MP Graham Stuart and representatives from the Equinor, Centrica Energy Storage and SSE Thermal.

The partnership and coupled with the well developed government processes and business models, represent the best an opportunity for the UK to start a meaningful hydrogen economy within the decade. 

Execution can help facilitate the minimum critical infrastructural requirements from which a hydrogen economy can grow across the UK. This in turn will support the UKs climate change targets, create thousands of long term jobs and tangible decarbonisation of the UKs largest industrial cluster, the Humber, within the decade

H2H Easington includes proposals by Equinor and Centrica to deliver a multi-stage green and blue hydrogen production facility which will scale up over time as a hydrogen economy develops. Since a co-operation agreement was signed between the two companies in 2022, detailed engineering studies have assessed projects which could produce up to 1.2GW of blue hydrogen production and up to 1GW of green hydrogen at Easington with initial projects commissioned by the end of the decade then expansion through the 2030s.

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