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Evening Standard
Holly Williams

Gas storage project being eyed to help boost UK capacity by up to 50%

Britain currently has the lowest gas storage capability in the G7 (Alamy/PA) -

Plans are being mooted for an £830 million project off the UK coast that claims to be able to boost the UK’s depleted gas storage capacity by up to 50%, it has been revealed.

British-Irish energy firm dCarbonX, which is backed by Europe’s largest gas infrastructure operator Snam, is proposing to redevelop the former Bains gas site, which is near Barrow-in-Furness and around 30 kilometres off the coast of north-west England in Morecambe Bay.

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