Landmark Project EET Launches Europe’s First Hydrogen-Ready Combined Heat and Power Plant

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EET Hydrogen Power, Europe’s first hydrogen-ready combined heat and power plant will be developed at Essar Energy Transition’s Stanlow refinery in the UK. With this project, EET Fuels’ aims to become the lowest carbon process refinery globally and EET Hydrogen aims to become the leading low carbon hydrogen producer in the UK.

Stanlow/UK – Essar Energy Transition (EET) has recently announced the launch of EET Hydrogen Power, Europe’s first hydrogen-ready combined heat and power plant (CHP) to be built at its Stanlow refinery, with the aim of completing construction in 2027. The investment will support EET Fuels’ ambition to become the lowest carbon process refinery, globally and EET Hydrogen’s ambition to become the leading low carbon hydrogen producer in the UK. It will also provide low carbon power to other industrial users in the region to support their decarbonization targets. EET Hydrogen Power will become an independent vertical under EET.

EET Hydrogen Power will be developed over two phases to reach a capacity of 125 MW of power with 6,000 tonnes per day of steam, with the hydrogen replacing hydrocarbons delivering a reduction of 740,000 tonnes of carbon dioxide per annum. The new plant will replace Stanlow’s existing boiler units, which currently generate approximately 50 MW of power for the refinery operations. The plant is integral to the decarbonization of operations at EET Fuels’ Stanlow refinery, which plans to cut total emissions by 95 % by 2030, to become the world’s lowest carbon refinery.

EET Hydrogen Power is a key infrastructure project, supporting the decarbonization plans of the wider Hynet industrial cluster as well as forming a blueprint for future industrial and power decarbonization. The investment also delivers on EET’s contribution in supporting and growing high skilled employment in the North West.

The investment into building Europe’s first hydrogen ready power plant is a key part of EET’s overall 3.0-billion-dollar energy transition initiatives in the North West of England.

EET includes: EET Hydrogen Power; EET Fuels (which is the owner of the Stanlow Refinery); EET Hydrogen, (which is developing 1.35+ gigawatt (GW) of blue and green hydrogen capacity for the UK market, with follow-on capacity ambition of 4 GW); and Stanlow Terminals, the UK’s largest independent bulk liquid storage terminal (which is developing enabling transport and storage infrastructure for biofuels and new energies).

Rob Wallace, Chief Executive Officer of EET Hydrogen Power, commented: “We have bold ambitions for Stanlow to become a low carbon transition hub at the centre of the Hynet Industrial Cluster. EET Hydrogen Power will be Europe’s first 100 % hydrogen-ready gas-turbine plant which will be supplied with EET Hydrogen’s low carbon hydrogen. This project will create significant benefit by contributing to regional emissions’ reductions targets.”

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