Environmental capacity for industrial clusters
Investigation into the environmental capacity for deploying carbon capture and hydrogen production decarbonisation technology in key English industrial clusters.
Applies to England
Documents
Details
These documents present findings of government sponsored work by the Environment Agency (EA) to investigate the environmental capacity for deploying carbon capture and hydrogen production technology in key English industrial clusters.
They include:
- a snapshot view of industry plans at a cluster level
- a full review of evidence on water availability and quality and air quality
- a partial review of the risk of flooding
- impacts that deployment may have on the receiving environment, including habitats
- consideration of how these factors will be influenced by a changing climate
The project was phased over four years and considered the Humber, Teesside and HyNet (northwest) English industrial clusters due to their sizeable contribution to the UK’s annual industrial carbon dioxide emissions as follows:
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in Humber – for water availability and water quality (Phase 1, 2021-2), air quality and flood risk (Phase 2, 2022-3)
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in Teesside – for water availability and water quality (Phase 2. 2022-3), air quality (Phase 3, 2023-4)
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in HyNet (North West) – for water availability and water quality (Phase 3, 2023-4), air quality (Phase 4, 2024-5)
The findings from these reports will help government, industry and regulators to consider and find solutions to the challenges facing the environment from these technologies.
Related projects
- Digital twin of an industrial cluster: a proof of concept on the Humber Estuary
- Digital twin of an industrial cluster: a proof of concept on the Humber Estuary - YouTube
Technologies
- Post-combustion carbon dioxide capture: emerging techniques
- Hydrogen production with carbon capture: emerging techniques
- Hydrogen production by electrolysis of water: emerging techniques
Guidance and information related to discharges to water
- Abstraction licensing strategies (catchment abstraction management strategy (CAMS) process) – find out how much water is available in your area
- Meeting our future water needs: a national framework for water resources
Guidance and information related to discharges to air
- Air emissions risk assessment for your environmental permit
- Environmental permitting: air dispersion modelling reports
- UK Carbon Capture and Storage (UKCCS) Research Community: Best available techniques (BAT) information for CCS
- UKCCS Research Community: Improving post combustion carbon capture air quality risk assessment techniques
- Hazard ranking of substances for development of environmental assessment levels (EALs) for substance emissions to air from carbon capture technologies
- Environment Agency recommendations for the assessment and regulation of impacts to air quality from amine-based post-combustion carbon capture plants
Updates to this page
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Published Environmental Capacity in Industrial Clusters: Phase 4.
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Added Environmental capacity for industrial clusters: Phase 3 and annexes 1 to 6.
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First published.