Oil & Gas News – Late April 2025
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Proposals to create a UK-wide network of low-carbon hydrogen infrastructure, aggregating more than 1GW of production capacity, have been unveiled with the backing of businesses including Centrica, National Gas, JCB and Heidelberg.
The architects of the proposals for the ‘Project HySpeed’ project claim that, if delivered in full, its nationwide network would attract more than £6.5bn of private investment and add £2bn to the UK economy in GVA each year.
The project would aggregate hydrogen production from more than a dozen sites across the UK, spanning from Scotland to South-West England. All of these sites would produce ‘green’ hydrogen by splitting water using electrolysis processes powered by renewable electricity. https://www.edie.net/businesses-unveil-plans-for-6-5bn-uk-wide-renewable-hydrogen-mega-project/
United Utilities, the North West water and wastewater group, said it is delivering a ‘first-of-its-kind’ project to use gas from sewage waste to produce clean hydrogen.
The Warrington-based water utility has joined forces with Cambridge-based climate tech firm, Levidian, to demonstrate the opportunity for biogas produced from wastewater to create hydrogen and super-material graphene – the thinnest and strongest material ever to be discovered – at its largest wastewater treatment works in Manchester.
The trial is taking place at Manchester Bioresources Centre, part of Davyhulme Wastewater Treatment Works, where modern-day sewage treatment processes were first developed back in 1914.
