Hydrogen TE (Manston) Ltd has submitted a planning application fora commercial-scale waste-to-hydrogen facility at Manston in Kent expected to produce up to 8,000 tonnes of hydrogen annually.
The £120 milliom scheme, brought forward by with planning led by Lichfields, would process 44,000 tonnes of non-recyclable waste a year, including household waste, commercial plastics, timber and decommissioned wind turbine blades, to produce hydrogen for industrial use.
The company said all outputs would be reused capturing carbon dioxide for commercial use and inert aggregate for construction.
Rebecca Caines, a Senior Director at Lichfields, said: “This is the UK’s first commercial-scale waste-to-hydrogen facility, bringing together waste management and energy production in a single scheme.
The application has been submitted to Kent County Council.