Driving the Transition to Net Zero
At Progressive Energy, we develop and deliver low carbon projects to support the energy sector.
Our projects focus on hard-to-abate sectors including foundation industries, such as cement, glass and steel production, along with flexible power generation, energy from waste and refining.
We have extensive experience of carbon capture and storage (CCS) drawn from more than 25 years of project development with partners like ENI, Spirit and Sumitomo. We are also leaders in hydrogen production, transport and storage through our work with partners such as Cadent, Essar Energy Transition (EET) and Storengy.
In power generation we work with companies like ESB on the development of low carbon flexible generation to complement wind and solar.
We specialise in delivering complex innovative projects by building and managing industry consortia, collaborating with large industrial partners, and working closely with Government.
Our high value projects contribute to the UK’s energy security, economic growth and climate change targets.
Progressive Energy is the originator, architect, and coordinating partner of HyNet, the UK’s leading industrial decarbonisation cluster.
HyNet will create jobs and drive economic growth and investment in the North West and North Wales by reducing industrial emissions using low-carbon hydrogen and CCS. It will also avoid 10 million tonnes of CO₂ every year by 2030 – the equivalent of removing four million cars from the road.
Progressive works in partnership on HyNet with global industry leaders including Cadent, EET, Storengy, Heidelberg and Encyclis, bringing together world-class expertise in major infrastructure deployment to deliver real, lasting change.
At Progressive Energy, we are proud to be the driving force behind Peak Cluster. This project will help secure jobs and economic security for cement and lime producers across Derbyshire and Staffordshire by using carbon capture and sequestration to produce the low carbon materials which are essential for sustainable construction.
Progressive is working on Peak with partners Tarmac, Holcim, Breedon, Buxton Lime, Spirit Energy, the National Wealth Fund and Summit Energy.
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EET is delivering the world’s first low carbon refinery, securing its future into the 22nd century. EET Hydrogen (EETH) is a joint venture between Progressive Energy and EET, leading the way in low-carbon hydrogen production.
At the heart of the HyNet low carbon cluster, EETH will produce ‘blue’ hydrogen to replace the fossil gas used in the refinery and by other local industrial customers.
The state-of-the-art hydrogen production facility will be based at the Stanlow Manufacturing Complex in Ellesmere Port, Cheshire.
Read more at the project website.
Grenian Hydrogen, a pioneering renewable energy company, is set to supply green hydrogen to major industrial partners across the North West and North Wales, helping to secure jobs and create growth to 2050 and beyond.
Grenian will not only produce clean hydrogen at scale but also help accelerate the UK’s transition to renewable electricity by using power at times when demand is low from other sectors of the economy.
Further details can be found on the project website.
Low carbon hydrogen is set to be a critical enabler of the decarbonisation of energy-intensive manufacturing.
Since 2016, Progressive Energy has been collaborating with leading manufacturers across the North West to explore how they can transition to low-carbon hydrogen.
Secure, network-supplied hydrogen from the HyNet project offers industries an attractive, reliable pathway to decarbonisation and securing of jobs for the long-term.
To support market development, Progressive has initiated partnerships and raised £12M of funding for four successful commercial-scale hydrogen demonstrations in the North West at Unilever’s Port Sunlight manufacturing plant, Pilkington Glass’s Greengate Works in St Helens, Novelis’ aluminium recycling plant in Warrington and at Kellogg’s factory in Trafford Park, Manchester.
HyDeploy was the UK’s first demonstration of hydrogen blended into an operating gas network, managed by Progressive Energy.
Both HyDeploy1 and HyDeploy2 represent innovative projects, which showcased how hydrogen-blended gas can be a safe, low-carbon energy source for heating in homes and industry.
With successful demonstrations in residential homes, commercial properties and industries like glass and ceramics, HyDeploy provides the evidence needed to expand use of hydrogen blended into existing gas networks.
Following origination of HyDeploy and managing of the first demonstration, Progressive has recently developed the safety case for the use of blended hydrogen in the gas distribution network and continues to support wider deployment activities.
