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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Business
Alex Lawson Energy correspondent

Back online: the retired gas storage site now able to power 1m homes

Centrica's Easington gas terminal, east Yorkshire, which receives and separates natural gas from Rough, the North Sea underground storage site.
Centrica's Easington gas terminal, east Yorkshire, which receives and separates natural gas piped from Rough, the North Sea underground storage site. Photograph: Centrica

“Do you hear that?” asks Chris O’Shea, putting a finger in the air and looking out over a tangle of pipes and workers in orange hi-vis overalls.

A deep whirr punctures the calm of the east Yorkshire coast, as a huge engine powers up and prepares to suck thousands of cubic metres of gas from deep beneath the North Sea.

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