Hydrogen is to be used within a grid-connected gas-fired power plant for the first time in a pan-Humber tie up involving an energy giant and strongly-backed start-up.
Centrica is working with Hull green-tech pioneer HiiRoc to inject the clean feedstock into its peaking operations at Brigg. The trial, to start this time next year, follows a successful bid in the Net Zero Technology Centre’s £8 million Open Innovation Programme.
It comes as the owner of British Gas has also increased its shareholding in the three-year-old business to five per cent. Last November it was one of several investors to pump £28 million into HiiRoc alongside Melrose Industries, HydrogenOne, Cemex, Hyundai and Kia, who joined existing strategic investors Wintershall Dea and VNG.
