The Aldbrough gas storage site in Yorkshire has been largely loss-makingOne of Britain’s biggest gas storage sites could be converted to hold hydrogen, under plans being drawn up by SSE and Equinor. The FTSE 100 energy group and the Norwegian state-controlled oil and gas giant jointly own the Aldbrough site on the east Yorkshire coast, which started operation in 2011 and stores natural gas in nine underground salt caverns. SponsoredThe companies said they were now working on plans either to convert the site to store hydrogen or develop new hydrogen storage caverns alongside the existing facilities. The hydrogen storage site would initially be used to help secure supplies for the companies’ proposed world-first hydrogen-fuelled power plant at Keadby in north Lincolnshire. The Aldbrough conversion project is expected to cost hundreds of millions of pounds and

Source: The Times July 14, 2021 23:02 UTC