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ScottishPower and Hutchison Ports explore green hydrogen potential for Felixstowe

By: Tom Russell 09/08/2022 ScottishPower

General Hydrogen Ports

ScottishPower, with Hutchison Ports, is exploring the opportunity to develop, build and operate a multi-hundred MW green hydrogen production facility at the Port of Felixstowe. The two companies aim to decarbonise industry and transportation in the region.

Plans are being developed to use green hydrogen for onshore purposes, such as road, rail and industrial use, with the potential to create liquid forms, such as green ammonia or e-methanol. This could, in turn, provide clean fuels for shipping and aviation, and create opportunities for export to international markets. The project aims to continue engineering and site development works to align with customer demand from 2025 onwards.

Being ‘homemade’, green hydrogen has clear benefits for the security of UK energy supply and is a safe, long-term energy solution that could be vital for those who cannot decarbonise their operations through renewable electricity alone.

As well as accelerating the potential for cleaner industrial processes at the port, green hydrogen is poised to transform the heavy transport sector, which according to the two companies is a significant emitter of the UK’s current carbon emissions.

Barry Carruthers, Hydrogen Director at ScottishPower said: “This strategically important project could potentially create a clean fuels hub that could unlock nationally significant decarbonisation for the region, as well as playing a role in international markets. It’s perfectly located not far from our existing and future offshore windfarms in the East Anglia region, and demonstrates how renewable electricity and green hydrogen can now start to help to decarbonise road, rail, shipping and industry.”

Dr Therese Coffey MP, local MP for Suffolk Coastal, said: “I warmly welcome Hutchison Ports’ and Scottish Power’s joint plans to explore opportunities for a large-scale hydrogen hub at the Port of Felixstowe, providing green fuel at the UK’s largest container port. It’s schemes like this - and investment from industry as well as government - which is crucial for us to reach net zero by 2050.”

To remind, ScottishPower Renewables, which is part of the ScottishPower group of companies operating in the UK under Spanish energy giant Iberdrola Group, is developing a several offshore wind farms in the East Anglia region. The company recently secured a Contract for Difference (CfD) for its East Anglia THREE offshore wind farm. It follows development consents for the East Anglia ONE North and East Anglia TWO projects earlier this year. The three projects will have a combined capacity of around 3,100 MW.

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