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Business Wire
16-07-2025
- Business
- Business Wire
Black & Veatch Has Completed a Green Hydrogen Front-End Engineering Design Study for ScottishPower in U.K.
GLASGOW, Scotland--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Black & Veatch has completed execution of a front-end engineering design (FEED) study for the Whitelee Green Hydrogen Project, a proposed development by owner ScottishPower Energy Retail Limited. The contract was awarded to Black & Veatch in October of 2024. Black & Veatch has completed a green hydrogen front-end engineering design study for ScottishPower in U.K. The first phase of the plan, located 15 miles south of Glasgow, was awarded via U.K. government funding support as part of its Hydrogen Allocation Round 1 (HAR1) process. The project will produce green hydrogen via a power supply connection to the U.K.'s largest onshore windfarm, Whitelee Windfarm, creating a valuable renewable fuel with zero carbon emissions. Green hydrogen effectively provides a resilient fuel source by using electricity from renewable sources, such as wind, and converting it using an electrolyser —a device that uses electricity to split water into hydrogen and oxygen through electrolysis. Green hydrogen then operates as a transportable and fungible fuel, ensuring low to no carbon emissions in the process. As the U.K. government shortlists new green hydrogen projects for funding as part of its Hydrogen Allocation Round (HAR2), Black & Veatch continues to work with clients using the company's power generation and lower carbon expertise to plan, design and build green hydrogen plants. Black & Veatch has recently completed more than 200 front-end loading (FEL) studies globally with 245MW of green hydrogen projects completed or under construction. 'ScottishPower develops green hydrogen responsibly and we selected Black & Veatch because of their decades of experience in hydrogen and strong commitment to safety,' said Mark Bradley, Hydrogen Director, ScottishPower Green Hydrogen Limited. 'We take a holistic development approach, consulting with local stakeholders to ensure we are able to successfully develop low carbon sources of energy for our customers.' The multi-disciplinary engineering team from Black & Veatch delivered a design with safety at the forefront and leveraged the internal experience of constructing and commissioning hydrogen production facilities in other regions. The FEED study includes the incorporation of the OEM's electrolyser package design, as well as the design of all balance of plant scope including hydrogen compression and a tube-trailer dispensing station. The first phase of this project covers 10MW of proton exchange membrane (PEM) electrolysis, and the conceptual design from Black & Veatch includes a second phase that incorporates an additional 10MW in electrolysis capacity. The second phase has been shortlisted for the U.K. government's HAR2 process. Black & Veatch is also the engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) provider for Advanced Clean Energy Storage I (ACES I), a green hydrogen hub in Utah in the United States, and is considered a leading global innovator in the design and engineering of first of a kind, at-scale green hydrogen plants. 'Our clients entrust us to help engineer and deploy innovative, bankable green hydrogen energy infrastructure to transition them to lower carbon solutions,' said Youssef Merjaneh, senior vice president and managing director, Europe Middle East and Africa, Black & Veatch. 'This innovative project will produce green hydrogen from adjacent onshore wind as part of the U.K. government's HAR funding program, and we look forward to continued collaboration with the ScottishPower team.' For more information on the company's hydrogen and ammonia experience, visit Black & Veatch is a 100-percent employee-owned global engineering, procurement, consulting and construction company with more than 100-years of innovation in sustainable infrastructure. Since 1915, we have helped our clients improve the lives of people around the world by addressing the resilience and reliability of our most important infrastructure and energy assets. Follow us on and on LinkedIn, Facebook, X (Twitter) and Instagram.
Yahoo
19-06-2025
- General
- Yahoo
A hundred trees to be felled at historic hall
Work will begin to fell a hundred trees suffering from ash dieback disease on a historic estate during nesting season. The National Trust, which manages Ormesby Hall in Middlesbrough, was granted planning permission for the work to begin in January, but it was pushed back for an ecology assessment to be carried out. The trust said it was satisfied with measures in place to protect wildlife and described how the trees potentially posed a risk to the public should they become too weak and collapse. The disease is a fungus which infects ash trees, attacking leaves and branches, causing lesions, and eventually leading to their death. Mark Bradley, countryside manager with the National Trust, told the Local Democracy Reporting Service (LDRS) that "it was not ideal" to be carrying out the work during nesting season. He said there was a benefit to carrying the work out during the drier season and that exclusion zones had been set up around nesting sites. "To manage risks, before we began the tree work, we assessed the site and considered what needed doing against the potential impacts on wildlife and the environment. "We also do what we reasonably can to avoid disturbing or damaging birds' nests," he said. Most of the trees affected on the estate had been planted in Pennyman's Woods in the 1980s. However, some older trees running along the nearby roadside, were probably more than 200 years old but would also have to come down. Mr Bradley said: "As Europe's largest conservation charity, we take all our work of this nature extremely seriously and operate to what we believe are the highest standards. "Our risk management of nest sites is above and beyond the norm." Follow BBC Tees on X, Facebook, Nextdoor and Instagram. Trees hit by 'notable increase' in ash dieback Disease will kill 'more than 180,000 trees' National Trust
BBC News
19-06-2025
- General
- BBC News
Middlesbrough's Ormesby Hall to fell trees due to ash dieback disease
Work will begin to fell a hundred trees suffering from ash dieback disease on a historic estate during nesting National Trust, which manages Ormesby Hall in Middlesbrough, was granted planning permission for the work to begin in January, but it was pushed back for an ecology assessment to be carried trust said it was satisfied with measures in place to protect wildlife and described how the trees potentially posed a risk to the public should they become too weak and disease is a fungus which infects ash trees, attacking leaves and branches, causing lesions, and eventually leading to their death. Mark Bradley, countryside manager with the National Trust, told the Local Democracy Reporting Service (LDRS) that "it was not ideal" to be carrying out the work during nesting said there was a benefit to carrying the work out during the drier season and that exclusion zones had been set up around nesting sites. "To manage risks, before we began the tree work, we assessed the site and considered what needed doing against the potential impacts on wildlife and the environment."We also do what we reasonably can to avoid disturbing or damaging birds' nests," he of the trees affected on the estate had been planted in Pennyman's Woods in the some older trees running along the nearby roadside, were probably more than 200 years old but would also have to come Bradley said: "As Europe's largest conservation charity, we take all our work of this nature extremely seriously and operate to what we believe are the highest standards."Our risk management of nest sites is above and beyond the norm." Follow BBC Tees on X, Facebook, Nextdoor and Instagram.
