Equinor to triple UK hydrogen output with new plant near Hull

Norwegian oil company's facility will be biggest in world with carbon capture and storage technology

Norway's state oil company Equinor will triple its UK hydrogen output, after setting out plans to build the world's biggest hydrogen production plant with carbon capture and storage technology near Hull.

Equinor plans to produce clean-burning blue hydrogen" to supply the Keadby gas power plant in Lincolnshire, owned by energy company SSE, making it the world's first full-scale power plant to burn pure hydrogen to generate electricity.