BP is to develop HyGreen Teesside – a green hydrogen production facility in the north east of England that can be scaled up to deliver 500MW by 2030.

A final investment decision is expected in 2023 after which the energy giant aims to start production in 2025, launching with an initial phase of 60MW of installed capacity.

HyGreen and BP’s blue hydrogen project – H2Teesside – will have a combined capacity of 1.5GW and the potential to deliver 30% of the UK’s ‎‎2030 target for hydrogen production.

BP has already announced a series of MoUs with hydrogen customers in the area. It has also ‎signed an MoU with Daimler Truck to pilot both the development of hydrogen infrastructure and the ‎introduction of hydrogen-powered fuel-cell trucks in the UK.‎

Louise Jacobsen Plutt, BP’s senior vice president for hydrogen and CCUS, said: “Low carbon ‎hydrogen will be essential in decarbonising hard-to-abate industrial sectors including heavy transport. ‎Together, HyGreen and H2Teesside can help transform Teesside into the UK’s green heart, ‎strengthening its people, communities and businesses. This is exactly the type of energy we want to ‎create and more importantly deliver.”

Grant Shapps, UK transport secretary, said: ‎“This exciting project builds on our ongoing development of ‎hydrogen in the area through the Tees Valley Hydrogen Transport Hub. It’ll help pave the way for its ‎use across all transport modes, creating high-quality, green jobs in the process.‎

‎“This is excellent news following the recent COP26 summit and I look forward to supporting industry ‎to develop new technologies as we build a cleaner transport system and work towards a net-zero ‎future.”‎

HyGreen will be BP's first green hydrogen project in the UK. The company is already investing in green hydrogen projects in:  

• The Netherlands
• Germany (Lingen)
• Spain (Castellon)

BP’s renewables pipeline in the UK includes:

• 3GW of offshore wind in Ireland
• Delivery of charging point
• Aberdeen City partnership deal