The Humber Energy Board provides a unified strategic voice for the region’s energy industry, supporting and attracting investment, creating and safeguarding skilled jobs and enabling the infrastructure needed to power the UK’s economic growth and secure its long-term energy future.
Humber plays a critical role in the UK’s energy system and industrial economy. The region generates around 20% of the UK’s electricity, produces a significant proportion of refined products, and handles roughly a fifth of the UK’s imported gas through infrastructure along the Humber Estuary.
Alongside this industrial strength, Humber has one of the UK’s most significant opportunities to deliver new energy infrastructure, protect existing industries and unlock substantial investment and employment across the region.
But key decisions are required from Government to unlock these opportunities, drive economic growth and re-energise the Humber.
The Humber is not a future ambition. It is an existing industrial powerhouse undergoing transition.
It hosts globally significant energy and manufacturing assets that are critical to the UK’s energy system, its supply chains, and its economic resilience. It has well-developed plans to modernise power generation, protect strategic industry, and strengthen domestic energy production.
Decisions taken in the coming years will determine whether this industrial cluster evolves and strengthens, or risks decline.
The Humber is ready to deliver.
Already central to how Britain powers itself, the Humber hosts assets critical to UK plc – with the infrastructure and expertise to stay that way.
Developing production, transport and storage infrastructure to support a competitive low-carbon economy.
Enabling large-scale industrial emissions reduction and safeguarding strategic industry.
Building on global leadership to strengthen energy security and supply chain opportunity.
Industrial decarbonisation in the Humber is about safeguarding existing employment while creating new skilled roles across supply chains, engineering and infrastructure.
Recent industrial closures underline the importance of timely infrastructure decisions.
Hydrogen and CCS delivery offer a pathway to future-proofing industry and sustaining economic resilience across communities on both banks of the Humber.
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