Energy Capital of the UK

Vision:

Pembrokeshire is home to a vibrant clean energy cluster, the bedrock for the UK’s hydrogen economy (PCC and PoMH vision, supported by ORE Catapult and the Milford Haven Waterway Future Energy Cluster).

Floating Offshore Wind (FLOW) 

Crown Estate Celtic Sea proposal is targeting 4.5 GW FLOW operational by 2035. 50 GW attainable. 3,000 jobs and £682m in supply chain opportunities for Wales and Cornwall by 2030. In the vanguard is the 96MW Erebus project led by Total and Simply Blue Energy with their follow on 300MW Valorous project and plans for the Pembrokeshire Demonstration Zone to co-locate floating wind and wave technology.

Wave 

Pembrokeshire has the highest concentration of wave resource in Wales - indicative capacity of up to 5.6 GW. (e.g. Bombora/Marine Power Systems)

Tidal Stream

as an example tidal streams around the west of Ramsey Island and within Ramsey sound can each up to 4ms providing an indicative capacity of ~150 MW. (e.g. Cambrian Offshore Ltd)

Tidal Range

proposed Tidal Lagoon Swansea Bay (Blue Eden) one of the world’s first, man-made, energy-generating lagoons, with a 320MW installed capacity. Severn Barrage could provide up to 10% of UK electricity.

Pembrokeshire Demonstration Zone (PDZ)

element of City Deal Pembroke Dock Marine (PDM) project is targeting of 1GW High Voltage AC from FLOW and Wave technologies and will be spending the next few years assessing the PDZ areas for suitable locations for aggregated grid connection points (on or offshore).

GreenLink

will be investing in High Voltage DC infrastructure to enable the 500MW interconnector between ROI and Pembrokeshire.

 

Huge renewable electricity potential. Electricity grid and ports infrastructure upgrades needed. Heat & Transport emissions hardest to action.

 

Offshore Wind

• UK Govt target for 50 GW of operational offshore wind by 2030 (with 5GW from FLOW).
• Crown Estate Celtic Sea proposal is targeting 4 GW FLOW operational by 2035. (50 GW attainable).
• 96MW Erebus project led by Total and Simply Blue Energy with their follow on 300MW Valorous project (operational 2027-2030).
• Plans for the Pembrokeshire Demonstration Zone to co-locate floating wind and wave technology.
• Perspective: UK baseload power consumption 32 GW, Peak 47 GW Gridwatch (opens in a new tab)
  
  

Hydrogen

The Council is actively pursuing the development of clean hydrogen projects. Industry around the Pembroke HVAC and HVDC infrastructure have high hydrogen demand (Valero) or high hydrogen demand or distribution and storage potential (RWE / Puma / National Grid / WWU). There is great potential for green hydrogen to service transport.

The UK Government is supporting the development of green and blue hydrogen projects with a desire for 10 GW installed by 2030.

• Blue – Blue hydrogen is grey hydrogen but separates the CO2 emissions for re-use or underground or subsea storage. Seen as a transitional approach while demand cannot be met fully by green hydrogen, some environmentalists oppose this option.
• Green – Using renewable electricity sources (solar/wind/hydro etc) to power electrolysis to make hydrogen. This could include offshore wind operators developing floating electrolysis plants.

Once we have Hydrogen, it is an incredibly versatile fuel. It can be stored, piped, or carried by tankers to consumers, for example to serve hydrogen filling stations or for heating, hot water and cooking. Hydrogen can also be used to balance gas as electricity grids as it is an excellent energy storage medium. It can also be used to generate power.

An ‘early mover’ example - RWE Pembroke Net Zero Centre

• Green hydrogen production, including the development of an electrolyser on the Pembroke site, the development of floating offshore wind (FLOW) in the Celtic Sea. 110 MW green H2 electrolysis (by 2026) and up to 1GW (by 2030). (UK target for 10 GW by 2030)
• H2 for fleet, transport, industry, grid.
• Decarbonisation of Pembroke Power Station, including studies for carbon capture.
• The feasibility of hydrogen as a fuel

"RWE has a hydrogen business and we are looknig to deliver 2GW of hydrogen projects by 2030, including a green hydrogen project in Pembrokeshire. Key to this is the economic viability of projects producing hydrogen for use across a wide variety of sectors such as transport, power and industry. RWE welcomes the work of MH:EK in helping to make the storage, use and distribution of hydrogen cost effective." Jeremy Smith, RWE

Milford Haven : Energy Kingdom

 

Why here?

Milford Haven Waterway – The UK’s Largest Energy Port - Circa 25% of the UK’s energy imports with a huge opportunity to lead the transition from a fossil fuel to renewables based economy.

• Marine Renewables a major future contributor
• RWE Pembroke Power Station 2200MW Combined Cycle Gas Turbine
• Valero Pembroke Refinery 270,000 bpd,10.5m barrels storage
• Valero Pembrokeshire Oil Terminal 8.7mb petroleum products storage facility
• Dragon LNG Liquefied Natural Gas terminal
• South Hook LNG Liquefied Natural Gas Terminal
• Puma 1.4m m3 storage facility

4,000 jobs (40% of total local employment around the Port)

 

South Wales Industrial Cluster (SWIC)

47 organisations collaborating to form ideas on how South Wales Industry can come together to help decarbonise on the UK’s most important industrial production areas.

 

Early Focus:

Energy Efficiency, Fuel Switching, Smart Networks & CCU to gain momentum with the CCS infrastructure is being developed: Driven via x 2 Main Projects:

 

Cluster Plan:

Made up of x 30 formal partners designed to pull together Extra Large, Large, Medium & Small Emitters into a  coherent structure that can work together to deliver Net Zero.

 

Deployment:

Focus on the x 4 largest emitters from which 75%  of emissions occur and will enable especially the CO 2  shipping  infrastructure to be built providing access to further SWIC members.

 

Roadmap and Deployment: Exploring the art of the possible for decarbonising South Wales

'Developing the art of the possible for decarbonising South Wales'

 

SWIC Deployment Phase in Numbers

Funding from UK Government Business, Enterprise and Innovation Department, via Innovate UK, with Match Funding from industrial partners:

• Total Project Value: £37.6m (£20m grant, plus £17.6m industry match funding)
• Overall Duration of the Project: 36 months
• SWIC Deployment Phase will cover feasibility and engineering design studies, leading to Financial Investment Decisions – the first project should be completed in 2025
• If all SWIC Deployment Projects are fully implemented, this will require an investment of over £3.5bn in South Wales.