Equinor and SSE Develop Plans for UK Hydrogen Storage Facility
July 15 2021 - 9:30AM
Dow Jones News
By Dominic Chopping
Norwegian energy group Equinor ASA said Thursday that with
British energy company SSE PLC's Thermal unit they are developing
plans for a hydrogen storage facility at their existing Aldbrough
site on the East Yorkshire coast, in the north of England.
The existing Aldbrough gas storage facility, which was
commissioned in 2011, is co-owned by SSE Thermal and Equinor, and
consists of nine underground salt caverns.
Upgrading the site to store hydrogen would involve converting
the existing caverns or creating new purpose-built caverns to store
the low-carbon fuel, Equinor said.
Aldbrough hydrogen storage would have an initial expected
capacity of at least 320 gigawatt hours, and the facility could be
storing low-carbon hydrogen as early as 2028, it said.
"As increasing amounts of hydrogen are produced both from
offshore wind power, known as 'green hydrogen', and from natural
gas with carbon capture and storage, known as 'blue hydrogen',
facilities such as Aldbrough will provide storage for low-carbon
energy," Equinor said.
Aldbrough Hydrogen Storage, and the partners' other hydrogen
projects in the region, are in the development stage and final
investment decisions will depend on the progress of the necessary
business models and associated infrastructure.
Write to Dominic Chopping at dominic.chopping@wsj.com
(END) Dow Jones Newswires
July 15, 2021 09:20 ET (13:20 GMT)
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