North Lincolnshire Council in the UK has granted planning permission for Uniper’s Humber H2ub green hydrogen production facility at Killingholme.

On completion, the facility will have an installed electrolyser capacity of 120MW-electrical (MWe), with the potential for future expansion of at least an additional 200MWe.

The facility is due to be located at Uniper’s existing Killingholme power station site and will likely draw power from wind generation, with the region connected to around 4.9GW of operational offshore wind capacity.

The project was shortlisted in the UK Government’s Hydrogen Allocation Round 2 (HAR2) programme last April. The HAR2 scheme could provide revenue support through 15 years of contract-for-difference style deals with the company.

Guy Phillips, team lead, Business Development Hydrogen for Uniper in the UK, comments: 'This is an important milestone for the Humber H2ub (Green) project and another step towards realising industrial-scale, low-carbon hydrogen production in the Humber [region].'

Once the facility is operational, the hydrogen, which will meet the government’s Low Carbon Hydrogen Standard, is intended to be supplied to Phillips 66’s Humber refinery from 2029. This is part of Phillips 66’s wider plans to reduce scope 1 emissions at the refinery.