Powering Britain's hydrogen future from the Humber
Humber Hydrogen will connect hydrogen production, storage, industry and power stations to realise the Humber’s potential as the home of British hydrogen.
Across key sites at Aldbrough, Easington, Saltend, Immingham, Keadby and beyond – the region is an industrial hub at the heart of the energy transition.
National Gas, Equinor, Centrica, and SSE Thermal are bringing proven delivery experience across the full hydrogen value chain, and a shared commitment to the Humber’s role as Britain’s hydrogen heartland.
To achieve this, the network, through the Humber Hydrogen Pipeline (HHP) and Aldbrough Hydrogen Storage projects, will submit proposals under the UK Government’s Hydrogen Transport and Storage Business Model processes to determine where the first hydrogen network is built.
Humber Hydrogen will establish the future of hydrogen in Great Britain.
Hydrogen storage, with build-out potential
- Anchor: Aldbrough Hydrogen Storage
- Expansion: Rough Hydrogen Storage
Demonstrator-scale hydrogen
- Aldbrough Hydrogen Pathfinder
Developers investing in more than 4 GW of hydrogen power generation
- Centrica’s Glanford Brigg
- Keadby Next Generation
- Keadby II
- Statera’s Creyke Beck
- Triton’s Saltend Power Station
- VPI Immingham
Five projects producing up to 1 GW of green hydrogen
- H2H Easington Green (Centrica, Equinor)
- Humber H2Hub®, Immingham (Uniper)
- Immingham Green Energy Terminal (ABP)
- Saltend Green Hydrogen Hub (Meld)
- Singleton Birch (Centrica)
Up to 2 GW of blue hydrogen production
- H2H Easington Blue (Centrica, Equinor)
- H2H Saltend (Equinor)
Extensive, credible, hydrogen demand points, include
Ammonia production
- Yara Ammonia Facility, Saltend
Refineries, petrochemicals and sustainable aviation fuel (SAF)
- LanzaTech Sustainable Aviation Fuel, Saltend
- P66 Sustainable Aviation Fuel, Immingham
- P66 Humber Refinery, Immingham
- Humber SAF, Immingham
Other industry, fuel or offtakers
- British Steel, Scunthorpe
- Easington Terminal, Centrica
- Guardian Glass, Goole
- Northern Gas Networks
- Singleton Birch
The Humber’s industrial landscape
*Industrial Decarbonisation Research and Innovation Centre, Humber Industrial Cluster, LINK
Putting the Humber at the heart of Britain’s hydrogen industry.
Hydrogen has a critical role to play in meeting the Britain’s energy needs – from decarbonising hard-to-electrify industries such as steel, glass and cement manufacturing, to providing feedstock for high-value products such as ammonia and Sustainable Aviation Fuel (SAF).
The Humber’s geology, high-value infrastructure and skilled workforce make it the natural choice to lead the UK’s transition to a hydrogen economy.
By creating an integrated network of hydrogen production, transport and storage across East Yorkshire and North Lincolnshire, Humber Hydrogen is supporting the region’s industries to reduce emissions and create jobs – underpinning economic growth and propelling the Humber into a new era of global leadership in low carbon industry.
Up to
3GW
of low carbon hydrogen could be produced across the Humber.
About Humber Hydrogen
Projects in the network include:
Development of up to nine new salt caverns adjacent to the existing gas storage site, with an initial capacity up to 420 million m³ providing strategic balancing for hydrogen supply and demand. This is equivalent to the amount of gas in Britain’s entire gas system on a peak day.
This 35MW project tests and demonstrates hydrogen production, storage and power on a single site, to accelerate value chain learning and flexibility.
A multi stage green and blue hydrogen hub with an ambition of up to 2.2GW of production through the 2030s, with initial development phases targeted to align with the development of the pipeline and salt cavern storage.
A 600MW low carbon hydrogen production plant with carbon capture at the Saltend Chemicals Park, driving a 30% reduction in site emissions.
Development of a 34-mile underground pipeline linking Easington, Aldbrough and Saltend, with a crossing to the south bank to serve industry.
A 900MW hydrogen-ready power station, to provide flexible, low carbon power as hydrogen supply scales – with initial planning stages already under way.
Connecting Teesside and the Humber, this is the first section of Britain’s core hydrogen network to receive Ofgem funding for detailed engineering development.
Humber Hydrogen supporters
Leading industries set to benefit from locating Britain’s first hydrogen transport and storage network in the Humber.
Why hydrogen in the Humber is key to unlocking the future of Britain’s industry
The Humber is Britain’s ‘energy estuary’. Home to pioneering advances such as the landing of the first North Sea gas at Easington in 1967 and one of the country’s oldest chemicals parks at Saltend, the region has become a centre for oil refining, petrochemicals, power generation and offshore wind – all of which play a vital role in the UK economy and the nation’s energy security.
The Humber’s connected geography, natural salt caverns, heavy industrial base and skilled workforce make it the ideal location for Britain’s next step in large-scale hydrogen infrastructure development.
Proposed Aldbrough Hydrogen Storage Facility
Energy heritage, future focus
The Humber has powered Britain for generations. Nearly six decades on from the birth of the gas era in the Humber, the region is ready to build on its proud heritage and deliver on the energy transition once again, with a highly skilled workforce and established projects developing modern infrastructure at pace.
Geology and infrastructure advantage
The natural salt caverns at Aldbrough can be adapted for safe hydrogen storage, enabling large, flexible capacity while minimising local disruption, supporting a cost‑effective network built at pace.
Plugged into the core national hydrogen network
Our assets are positioned to connect with Project Union, Britain’s planned 1,500‑mile core hydrogen network, now moving into detailed engineering for the East Coast link across Teesside and the Humber with Ofgem support.
Driving growth and decarbonisation
The Humber industrial cluster contributes £18 billion to the economy each year and supports tens of thousands of high-value jobs – but it is also Britain’s most carbon-intensive cluster. By supporting fuel switching for hard-to-electrify sectors and enabling future fuels like Sustainable Aviation Fuel and ammonia, Humber Hydrogen will help anchor long term industrial activity, attract investment, and protect skilled jobs.
How Humber Hydrogen will deliver
We will supply hydrogen to industry and power generators across the Humber, unlocking the region’s growth potential, supporting it to compete internationally, and leading Britain’s clean energy transition.
What this means for industry and power generators
A pathway to low carbon hydrogen at scale, backed by storage and designed for long‑term resilience and flexibility. Our infrastructure will attract new businesses, support industry to decarbonise, and unlock commercial opportunities. Please get in touch if your organisation would like to get involved.
What this means for communities in East Yorkshire and North Lincolnshire
Humber Hydrogen will protect the nationally important skills across the region, create new, skilled jobs across the Humber, and back local suppliers and the national supply chain. By anchoring investment in clean growth, we are helping to ensure long‑term, high‑quality employment and economic opportunity for people across the Humber.
What this means for Britain’s energy system
We will start Britain’s national hydrogen network in the Humber, demonstrating a blueprint for national deployment. Humber Hydrogen will enable deep industrial decarbonisation, strengthen national energy security, and create an efficient route to a clean energy system. Humber Hydrogen is the first step in this journey.
65
%
of the UK's total potential new-build storage capacity for hydrogen is located in East Yorkshire.*
*Arup, Assessing Regional Demand for Geological Hydrogen Storage, February 2024, LINK
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