H2NorthEast is a major project to build a 1GW CCUS-enabled low carbon hydrogen production facility next to our CATS terminal on Teesside that has the potential to contribute up to 10% of the UK’s target 10GW hydrogen capacity by 2030.
And it's helping put Teesside firmly on the map as a hydrogen Superplace.
A partnership between Kellas and SSE Thermal, H2NorthEast will deliver 355MW of low carbon hydrogen to local industry in Phase 1, upscaling to more than a gigawatt by the early 2030s in further phases. That’s the energy equivalent of heating more than a million households.
Phase 1 of H2NorthEast is well underway and entered front end engineering design (FEED) in Q3 2023.
The project is part of the East Coast Cluster (ECC), one of the UK’s first carbon capture, usage and storage clusters. Comprising the Humber and Teesside industrial regions that represent almost 50% of carbon emissions from all UK industrial clusters, the ECC offers the single biggest opportunity to decarbonise industry anywhere in the country.
For Teesside, H2NorthEast offers a large-scale, cost-effective and sustainable way to deliver low carbon hydrogen, with the potential to have a major impact on the region’s economy. The area is on track to become one of the world’s first decarbonised industrial clusters by 2040 through the production, consumption and export of low carbon hydrogen.
