Planning permission has been granted by North Lincolnshire Council in the UK for a new low carbon hydrogen production facility at Killingholme. Uniper’s Humber H2ub (Green) hydrogen production facility will, on completion, have an installed electrolyser capacity of 120 MWe with the potential for future expansion of a further 200 MWe+.
The facility is planned to be located at Uniper’s existing Killingholme power station site. The project was shortlisted in the UK government’s Hydrogen Allocation Round 2 (HAR2) programme last April.
Guy Phillips, team lead, Business Development Hydrogen for Uniper in the UK, commented: “This is an important milestone for the Humber H2ub (Green) project and another step towards realising industrial scale low carbon hydrogen production in the Humber [region]”.
Once the facility is operational, the hydrogen, which will meet the government’s Low Carbon Hydrogen Standard, is intended to be supplied to Phillips 66 Lt’s Humber Refinery from 2029. This is part of Phillips 66 Limited’s wider plans to reduce Scope 1 emissions at the refinery.
The development of a hydrogen production facility at Killingholme could also help to maintain economic prosperity in the region. Operation of the proposed facility is expected to deliver over £40 million per annum of GVA (gross value added) in present value terms for the UK economy. Of this, up to £20m per annum could benefit the Yorkshire and Humber region.
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