Including sectors such as hydrogen, carbon capture, utilisation and storage, offshore energy and process engineering, the Tees Valley is one of the UK’s most integrated industrial economies with a supply chain made up of a wide range of firms.

This legacy has nurtured the advanced manufacturing sector and attracted strategically important multi-national companies to the area. This includes some of the most innovative and forward-thinking experts in low carbon technologies, with leading research and technology development organisations, such as the Centre for Process Innovation (CPI), Materials Processing Institute and TWI.

Net Zero Teesside Power is the UK’s first gas-fired power plant with carbon capture, utilisation and storage facility, capturing up to 10 million tonnes of carbon dioxide emissions a year. Based at Teesworks and in partnership with local industry and world-class partners including bp and Equinor, Net Zero Teesside aims to decarbonise the area’s carbon intensive businesses by as early as 2030.

SeAH Wind’s huge offshore manufacturing facility is currently under construction at the South Bank area of the site, utilising the Steel River Quay to transport its monopiles to the North Sea.

Elsewhere on the site, bp is also developing blue and green hydrogen projects on the site, while both EOS and NatPower have earmarked the site for battery energy storage systems. Planning permission has also been granted to allow Willis Sustainable Fuels to establish a facility to produce Sustainable Aviation Fuel on the site. This will produce 20 million litres of SAF a year, which has the potential to cut CO2 emissions by up to 85% when compare with traditional petrol-based aviation fuel.