Green hydrogen production to support steel production in Sheffield is being considered after government funding was secured.
E.on, the city’s university and industrial partners are collaborating, with biomass to be explored as a feedstock. A consortium has been formed to assess the feasibility, having successfully tapped into the Department Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy and its Net Zero Innovation portfolio.
It will be based at E.on’s Blackburn Meadows Renewable Energy Park, the location of a combined heat and power plant. For the past seven years it has used recycled waste wood sourced from within the UK to generate 30MW of electrical energy and up to 25MW of thermal energy, powering up to 69,000 homes and businesses in South Yorkshire.
