Equinor and SSE Thermal buy Triton
Firms will soon start preparations to convert Triton’s Saltend power station to run on blend of natural gas and hydrogen
Norwegian energy firm Equinor and UK utility SSE Thermal are buying power company Triton Power from Energy Capital Partners (ECP) for £341mn ($416mn) and starting preparations to use hydrogen in Triton’s Saltend power station on the Humber Estuary in the UK’s East Yorkshire region. The Saltend facility is a 1.2GW gas-fired power plant situated in the Saltend Chemicals Park. Equinor and SSE Thermal will start preparing the plant to use up to 30pc hydrogen from 2027, with an ambition to eventually increase this proportion to 100pc. The purchase of Saltend means Equinor has a guaranteed offtaker for its H2H Saltend blue hydrogen project, which will be situated on an adjacent site. “We are parti
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