NSG Group has announced that Pilkington United Kingdom Limited, part of the Group, intends to use green hydrogen at its site and scale its production of low carbon glass from 2027, under pioneering new plans with Grenian Hydrogen.
The new hydrogen plant at Pilkington UK’s Greengate Works site in St Helens would provide the furnace of the site with up to seven tonnes of zero-emission hydrogen each day. This would enable the company to eliminate 15,000 tonnes of carbon from its direct emissions each year, paving the way for the expanded production of low carbon architectural glass for buildings.
Plans to build the hydrogen plant powered by renewable electricity were put forward for public consultation last month ahead of Grenian Hydrogen submitting a planning application this Summer. It aims to start construction at Greengate Works in 2025 should the project be awarded funding under UK Governments Hydrogen Allocation Round 2 (HAR2), and to begin decarbonising Pilkington UK and the surrounding industry by 2027. The project at Pilkington UK is the first that Grenian will submit for planning permission.