Costain study to enable energy storage project
Published by Ellie Brosnan,
Editorial Assistant
Tanks and Terminals,
Marram Energy Storage Hub (MESH) is expected to be the UK’s largest integrated energy storage facility, planned to be approximately 15 km off the coast of Blackpool. It is designed to support the UK government’s energy strategy for transitioning to clean power by providing long-duration energy storage solutions, combining natural gas, hydrogen, and compressed air technologies.
Costain’s front-end engineering and design experts will initially compare possible locations for the onshore process facilities and associated infrastructure. The study will assess the impact of location on connectivity to the gas and electricity networks, review the impact of site selection on construction cost and schedule, and consider the opportunities and risks in reuse of existing infrastructure.
The planned MESH onshore facilities will support large scale natural gas storage and production, compressed air long duration energy storage (LDES), hydrogen storage, clean hydrogen production, clean ammonia and graphite production, and flexible clean power generation.
Grant Johnson, Technical Director at Costain, commented: “MESH is an ambitious project that will enhance the UK’s energy resilience, and enable more clean energy generation through large scale energy storage. We know just how important it is to make robust choices at the early stages of a project, and we are looking forward to helping EPP with site selection, using our experience in delivering energy storage infrastructure to inform decision-making on aspects such as constructability and sustainability.”
Once operational, MESH will enable natural gas storage in the depleted Marram reservoir, with subsequent development to include Hybrid Compressed Air Energy Storage (H-CAES), which will store energy from offshore wind in the region by compressing air into adjacent salt caverns. The salt caverns will also be used to store green hydrogen, either derived as part of a decarbonised H-CAES process or supplied via Project Union, the National Gas initiative that plans to repurpose and extend parts of the existing 5000 mile gas transmission network to connect hydrogen production, hydrogen storage, and industrial consumers.
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