By Kristy Dorsey Business Correspondent
Cerulean Winds has signed an agreement that will allow it to store excess
power produced at sea at onshore hydrogen facilities.
The deal with px Group, which operates some of the UK’s largest industrial
facilities, will see the installation of hydrogen storage plants at sites
in the north of England, north-east Scotland and Shetland. These would
support proposals from Cerulean to deploy hundreds of floating wind power
turbines in the North Sea in a bid to cut the bulk of emissions associated
with oil and gas production.
Led by oil services entrepreneurs Dan Jackson and Mark Dixon, Cerulean is
seeking to fast-track permission to install 200 floating wind turbines west
of Shetland and in the Central North Sea off the Scottish mainland. These
would have the capacity to produce 3GWh of power, decarbonising “the
majority” of UK Continental Shelf assets with an excess of 1.5GWh diverted
to the onshore plants for industrial use.
Under the terms of the agreement, px Group will be responsible for the
lease and ownership arrangements for the sites, and for obtaining planning
permissions.
The overall infrastructure project, which is valued at £10 billion, depends
on the grant of seabed leases from Marine Scotland. Cerulean says it need a
favourable decision by the third quarter of this year to meet the
timescales set out in the North Sea Transition Deal.
“Timing is absolutely crucial in this,” Mr Jackson said. “Everything hinges
on those leases being granted, even conditionally, by this autumn so we can
move ahead on schedule.”
He added that failure to move quickly on basin-wide decarbonisation would
“wholly undermine” the objectives of the transition deal.

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