Letter from London: BP’s East Coast demand warning
Oil major cites deteriorating demand and a planning debacle as it abandons one of UK’s largest blue hydrogen projects
BP has abandoned its H2Teesside blue hydrogen project in the northeast of England in a significant setback for the UK’s strategy to ramp up production of the clean energy vector by 2030. The oil major has withdrawn its development consent application for the 1.2GW project, which formed a key element of the UK’s East Coast Cluster and had been expected to contribute more than 10% of the government’s 2030 production target. The decision to drop H2Teesside is BP’s second exit from a hydrogen project in the industrial Teesside region in less than a year. In March 2025 it pulled the plug on Hygreen Teesside, a 500MW green hydrogen project. The decision to drop H2Teesside is BP’s second exit
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