The Humber’s emerging hydrogen role has been flagged up as one of the first successes of the North Sea Transition Deal.
A forerunner in the national fuel-switching strategy, mass production and distribution across the most polluting industrial cluster in the UK forms part of a dual plan that will see carbon emissions captured and stored beneath the sea bed.
It could also open the door to cleaning up shipping, heavy transport and home networks as uses are explored beyond intensive power production and manufacturing processes.