March 13, 2025 [The Buisness Desk]- UK Energy Storage (UKEn) has agreed Memorandums of Understanding with Portland Port for two joint venture hydrogen opportunities centred around the Port and UKEn’s material-scale South Dorset Storage site.
It plans to generate green hydrogen by importing green hydrogen carrier liquids by ship into Portland Port, and generate green hydrogen via electrolysis within the port.
UKEn’s South Dorset storage site and Portland Port’s deep-water port, which can handle Very Large Gas Carrier size vessels, presents an opportunity to establish a material scale integrated green hydrogen energy hub.
It has the potential to be one of only three national scale hubs of the future UK hydrogen system which offer the combination of material scale onshore underground storage, material scale green hydrogen production, and connection via trunk pipeline to the wider UK.
Stephen Sanderson, chief executive of UKEn’s parent company UK Oil & Gas, said: “The addition of a potential material source of green hydrogen, directly linked to UKEn’s South Dorset storage site, would both enhance our project’s national significance and the prospects of UKEn securing revenue support in the government’s forthcoming Hydrogen Storage procurement process.
“The revenue support case would likely be further strengthened by the future potential for UKEn’s proposed at scale Hydrogen Battery allied to planned offshore Dorset wind power.
Ian McQuade, commercial general manager at Portland Port, added: “The Portland Port team looks forward to exploring these hydrogen opportunities centred around the Port and UK Energy Storage’s material-scale South Dorset Storage site.
“The two MOUs underline our Green Energy Island aspiration for Portland to become a leading renewable energy hub on the south coast.”
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