Essar Energy Transition has launched EET Hydrogen Power, Europe’s first hydrogen-ready combined heat and power plant. It is to be built at EET’s Stanlow refinery, with the aim of completing construction in 2027, and will support EET Fuels’ ambition to become the lowest carbon process refinery, globally as well as 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. EET Hydrogen Power will become an independent vertical under EET.
It will be based at the EET Fuels’ Stanlow refinery, and is expecte3d to be operating by 2027. It will purchase hydrogen from EET Hydrogen’s production plants and supply power and steam to the Stanlow refinery.
EET Hydrogen Power will be developed over two phases to reach a capacity of 125 MWe with 6000 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 MWe for the refinery operations. The plant is integral to the decarbonisation of operations at EET Fuels’ Stanlow refinery, which plans to cut total emissions by 95% by 2030, which would make it the world’s lowest carbon refinery.
EET Hydrogen Power is considered to be a key infrastructure project, supporting the decarbonisation plans of the wider HyNet industrial cluster as well as forming a blueprint for future industrial and power decarbonisation. The investment also delivers on EET’s contribution in supporting and growing high skilled employment in the North West.
