Green Hydrogen – Hyro Energy, the £3bn joint venture between RES and Octopus Energy Generation, has submitted the planning application.
Plans for a new green hydrogen project at the factory behind household brands Andrex and Kleenex have been submitted. A planning application for the project has been put forward to Flintshire County Council by Hyro Energy, the £3bn joint venture between renewable energy company RES and Octopus Energy Generation.
If approved, it would see a 7.5MW green hydrogen electrolyser production and storage facility at Kimberly-Clark’s – the consumer goods giant which owns Huggies, Andrex and Kleenex – Coleshill manufacturing facility in Flint, north Wales.
The proposed scheme would use up to three electrolysers which will use electricity from renewable sources like wind and solar to split water and create green hydrogen. This would then be stored and used to fuel new industrial hydrogen boilers, replacing conventional gas, as part of the paper-making process.
Hyro Energy was established to deliver sources of hydrogen from renewable sources to help energy-intensive businesses decarbonise hard-to-electrify processes. The Coleshill Green Hydrogen Project is one of two projects located on existing Kimberly-Clark sites. The other project is at its manufacturing site in Kent.
Iain Buchanan, development project manager for Coleshill Green Hydrogen Project, said:
Green hydrogen projects are a critical component of the broader strategy to deliver energy security and create green economic growth across Wales and the UK.
“Green hydrogen can help to address the urgent need to decarbonise industrial businesses and hard to electrify sectors, setting them up with a cost competitive, clean fuel for the future.”
Oriol Margo, sustainability transformation leader for Kimberly-Clark EMEA, said:
This development at our Coleshill Site in Flint and our partnership with HYRO represents a huge step towards our ambition to move solely to renewable energy to manufacture Andrex, Kleenex, Huggies, WypAll and Scott in the UK by 2030.
Plans submitted for green hydrogen project at Kleenex and Andrex factory, July 25, 2023
