{"id":114384,"date":"2022-08-22T07:15:00","date_gmt":"2022-08-22T05:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/?p=114384"},"modified":"2022-08-16T08:44:29","modified_gmt":"2022-08-16T06:44:29","slug":"scottishpower-vision-for-green-hydrogen-fuels-hub-at-port-of-felixstowe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/scottishpower-vision-for-green-hydrogen-fuels-hub-at-port-of-felixstowe\/","title":{"rendered":"ScottishPower vision for green hydrogen fuels hub at port of Felixstowe"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><strong>The project could help kick-start the low carbon transformation of the UK\u2019s heavy transport sector.<\/strong><\/li><li><strong>100MW facility could deliver up to 40 tonnes of green hydrogen per day &#8211; enough to power 1300 hydrogen trucks.<\/strong><\/li><li><strong>International export also being explored.&nbsp;<\/strong><\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-style-default\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"840\" height=\"560\" src=\"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/media\/2022\/08\/image-27.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-114386\" srcset=\"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/media\/2022\/08\/image-27.jpeg 840w, https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/media\/2022\/08\/image-27-300x200.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/media\/2022\/08\/image-27-150x100.jpeg 150w, https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/media\/2022\/08\/image-27-768x512.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/media\/2022\/08\/image-27-400x267.jpeg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 840px) 100vw, 840px\" \/><figcaption>Felixstowe&#8217;s Port <strong>\u00a9<\/strong> ScottishPower<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>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 \u2013 with the potential to decarbonise industry and transportation in the region.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Both companies have set out their vision to help create a greener port, which could provide clean fuel for customers at Britain\u2019s busiest container port. &nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>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 cost-effective export to international markets. &nbsp;The project aims to continue engineering and site development works to align with customer demand from 2025 onwards.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Being \u2018homemade\u2019, 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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As well as accelerating the potential for cleaner industrial processes at the port, green hydrogen is poised to transform the heavy transport sector, which is a significant emitter of the UK\u2019s current carbon emissions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p><strong>Barry Carruthers, Hydrogen Director at ScottishPower said:<\/strong>&nbsp;\u201cThis 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. &nbsp;It\u2019s 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.\u201d&nbsp;<\/p><p><strong>Dr Therese Coffey MP, local MP for Suffolk Coastal, said:<\/strong>&nbsp;\u201cI warmly welcome Hutchison Ports\u2019 and Scottish Power\u2019s joint plans to explore opportunities for a large-scale hydrogen hub at the Port of Felixstowe, providing green fuel at the UK\u2019s largest container port. It\u2019s schemes like this &#8211; and investment from industry as well as government &#8211; which is crucial for us to reach net zero by 2050.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The project could help kick-start the low carbon transformation of the UK\u2019s heavy transport sector. 100MW facility could deliver up to 40 tonnes of green hydrogen per day &#8211; enough to power 1300 hydrogen trucks. International export also being explored.&nbsp; ScottishPower, with Hutchison Ports, is exploring the opportunity to develop, build and operate a multi-hundred [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":105,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"none","nova_meta_subtitle":"ScottishPower explores green hydrogen at Port of Felixstowe to help decarbonise the UK\u2019s busiest port","footnotes":""},"categories":[5572],"tags":[18418,19340,12366,15511],"supplier":[20858],"class_list":["post-114384","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bio-based","tag-cleanfuels","tag-decarbonisation","tag-fuels","tag-greenhydrogen","supplier-scottishpower"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114384","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/105"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=114384"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114384\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=114384"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=114384"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=114384"},{"taxonomy":"supplier","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/supplier?post=114384"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}