UK Energy Storage (UKEn) has agreed on terms to lease land for a second underground salt cavern hydrogen storage facility in Dorset, the UK.
Laying above the thickest onshore section of the Dorset Triassic salt deposit, the salt cavern facility aims to provide around 6.5-10TWh of working storage per year, understood to be around 10-20% of the UK’s 2050 estimated hydrogen storage demand.
The storage site will also be strategically located near SGN’s planned H2 Connect hydrogen pipeline, linking the facility directly to the planned Solent Cluster and the wider southern UK hydrogen supercluster.
The UK Oil & Gas subsidiary will now proceed to finalise the lease agreement, complete the salt cavern design and commence other works ahead of submitting a Nationally Significant Infrastructure Project planning application.
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