April 17, 2026 [Yahoo Finance]- A hydrogen production plant is to be built to supply energy to a refinery in North Lincolnshire.

Planning permission was granted for the development at Killingholme Power Station, near North Killingholme.

It will use electricity to split water into oxygen and hydrogen, which will then be used to provide fuel to the nearby Phillips 66 Humber Refinery.

A planning application submitted to North Lincolnshire Council said up to 110 jobs could be created during its construction, with 13 full-time posts when operational.

The hydrogen produced will replace some of the gas used for industrial fire heaters at the refinery.

Guy Phillips, from the developer Uniper, said: “This is an important milestone for the Humber H2ub (Green) project and another step towards realising industrial scale low carbon hydrogen production in the Humber.”

According to the Local Democracy Reporting Service, the final designs for the plant are to be confirmed.

It will be built on disused land at the power station and is expected to start producing hydrogen by 2029.