The project is one of the first in the UK to reach final invesment decision (FID), and is being delivered by Green Hydrogen Energy Company (GHECO), the joint venture established in 2023 by Schroders Greencoat, the specialist renewables and energy transition infrastructure manager, and Carlton Power, the British independent energy infrastructure company.
The Barrow Green Hydrogen project is supported by the UK government via its Hydrogen Business Model/Hydrogen Allocation Round 1.
The agreement will see Dalkia provide design and installation services to deliver a 30MW green hydrogen plant in Barrow-in-Furness. The hydrogen will be used by paper products manufacturer Kimberly-Clark at its plant in the town, where it produces Kleenex and Andrex tissues and toilet paper. While the products may be mundane, paper manufacturing is an energy intensive sector which cannot easily decarbonise using electricity alone.聽
The work will reduce the plant's聽consumption of natural gas by up to 50% with a reduction of 18,300 tonnes of CO2 emissions. Meanwhile, a long-term power purchase agreement with SEFE, an international energy company, has been agreed for the supply of renewable electricity.
The announcement follows more than three years of collaborative preconstruction design works between Dalkia and Barrow Green Hydrogen Limited. The main construction works will start in the summer, with the start of commercial operation within the next two years.
Dalkia will manage the total range of services from design to commissioning. The project scope also includes six, containerised 5MW Proton exchange membrane (PEM) electrolysers provided under a separate contract by Plug Power, which use renewable electricity to generate hydrogen; as well as ancillary equipment. Dalkia will mechanically and electrically connect the infrastructure.
In addition, teams will also use modular construction and prefabrication techniques to accelerate delivery, bring certainty to the programme and minimise waste.
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