East Coast Cluster
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- CO₂ reduction: Future expansion of the East Coast Cluster could enable the transportation and permanent storage of up to an average of around 23 million tonnes of CO₂ per year
- Skills Development: NZT Power and NEP provided financial support for the Tees Valley Net Zero Industry Scholarship - a £1 million training programme plugging skills gap for the region’s rapidly expanding clean energy sector
- Supply Chain impact: NZT Power and NEP have selected contractors for engineering, procurement, and construction contracts with a combined value of around £4 billion
About
The East Coast Cluster, one of the first two CCUS clusters to be taken forward by the UK Government, covers the industrial powerhouse regions of Teesside and the Humber – an area that accounts for around 50% of the UK’s industrial cluster emissions.
The cluster includes a diverse mix of projects: industrial carbon capture, low-carbon hydrogen production, negative emissions power, and power with carbon capture.
It is enabled by the Northern Endurance Partnership (NEP), a joint venture between shareholders bp, Equinor, and TotalEnergies, which is developing the onshore and offshore infrastructure needed to transport CO₂ from carbon capture projects to secure storage under the North Sea. NEP will be the UK’s first CO₂ transportation and storage infrastructure network and will transport and permanently store up to an initial 4 million tonnes of CO₂ per year.
In December 2024, NEP and NZT Power, first connectors to the NEP infrastructure, announced financial close with start-up expected in 2028.
More information here:
https://eastcoastcluster.co.uk/
