Panel Session

Hydrogen: Jobs, Skills and

Safety
Panel Chair | James Earl
Energy Networks
Association
Yasmin Ali
RWE
 Yasmin Ali
Hydrogen Project Development Manager

Hydrogen UK Conference: Jobs, Skills & Safety

12th March 2024
RWE Growing Green: Transition to a net zero world

RWE fully supports global climate

goals for a sustainable life

Target to achieve net zero for its direct

RWE to achieve net zero by 2040 and indirect GHG emissions
#RWEGoesClimateNeutral by 2040

Focus on renewables expansion and

innovative technologies to support
the energy transition

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RWE’s UK Renewables Portfolio

Onshore Wind:
Offshore Wind: 33 projects (738MW) operational. 22 Solar:
3.86GW growing to >10GW by 2030 Projects under development 21 projects (4.4GW) under development

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 UK Green Hydrogen Activity
• UK Hydrogen Delivery Council
Member Scottish Hydrogen Industry Forum
• Industrial Clusters & Hydrogen
Associations
RWE & SGN Partnership
MOU for gas network development

Wilton Green Hydrogen

Up to 260 MWe phased project

RWE, Mitsui & Port of Tilbury

MOU for two green hydrogen projects

Pembroke Net Zero Centre

110 MWe initial Phase I with growth to
200MWe Phase II
Didcot Green Hydrogen
UK Government funding for FEED studies for an
electrolyser plant to produce green hydrogen at RWE’s The Solent Cluster
Didcot site RWE on Board of the Solent Cluster

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RWE UK Hydrogen: A Growing Team!

October 2022 September 2023

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Hydrogen Jobs & Skills: 3 Key Areas of Activity

3. Engagement and skills

1. Early-stage engagement 2. Higher education engagement development for employment

• Promote STEM at schools • Work with Further Education • Internal – hiring/ training
• Engage with people up the colleges and universities to graduates and apprentices
age of 18 develop H2 skills • Externally – working with
bodies like HUK on nationwide
• Support teachers/ carers with • PhD students
skills development
STEM careers information

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Building a Safe Hydrogen Industry

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Caroline Smither
BOC
Caroline Smither
Director of Discipline Engineering
BOC UK & Ireland

Hydrogen UK Conference
Jobs, Skills & Safety Panel
Matthew Williamson
bp
Reimagining
Teesside
pioneering pasts, a
greener future
Putting safety
first
bp is a large-scale handler of hydrogen at our refineries,
safely and reliably generating and handling hydrogen
and carbon dioxide at an industrial scale.

We have more than 100 years of experience building and

operating major energy projects and know how to overcome
new challenges and have a culture of technological innovation.

We seek to learn from our partners and our own varied

portfolio to help minimise risk.

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 Our hydrogen projects on
Teesside
H2Teesside
• Aims to be one of the UK’s largest blue hydrogen
production facilities, targeting 1.2GW of hydrogen
production by 2030. This equates to over 10% of
the UK government’s hydrogen target of 10GW by
2030.
• The project could capture and send for storage
approximately two million tonnes of CO₂ per year,
via the NEP, supplying a diverse range of customers
– those already established in the region as well as
new businesses attracted to this low carbon
hydrogen produced at scale.
HyGreen Teessi
• Aims to be one of the biggest green hydrogen
facilities in the UK, with an initial planned phase
of 80MWe of installed hydrogen production
capacity. It could deliver up to 5% of the UK
government’s hydrogen target of 10GW by 2030.
• Expected to help fuel the development of
Teesside into the UK’s first major
hydrogen transport hub, leading the way for
large-scale decarbonization of heavy transport,
airports, ports and rail in the UK.
 Creating green
jobs
Together, bp’s plans for H2Teesside and HyGreen Teesside could
help to create high-quality jobs in both construction and operation
phases, and also support local education, skills development and
catalyze a UK-based hydrogen supply chain.

H2Teesside could provide more 1300 jobs (both direct and

indirect), and up to 130 jobs during the operational phase, as well
as approximately 600 broader supply chain roles.

HyGreen Teesside could create an average of 660 jobs a year

during construction and create over 100 jobs a year during
operation.

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 Developing green skills in
Teesside bp is working with local councils, authorities and
educators to help create a legacy in the region, and
support social mobility initiatives that engage local
communities, including:

• The Redcar & Cleveland College Teesside Clean Energy

Technician scholarship – a bespoke two-year engineering
programme offering school leavers a chance to earn while
they learn.

• The Skills Builder Partnership – which is bringing together

educators, employers and skills-building organisations in
Teesside around a shared approach to building the essential
skills for success.

• The University of York’s ‘Children Challenging Industry’

programme – an initiative helping young people across 22
primary schools see how scientific concepts are applied from
classroom scenarios to real life.

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Thank
You
Dr Katy Milne
Hydrogen Innovation
Initiative
 Hydrogen Innovation Initiative

Our mission is to accelerate critical technologies

and supply chains in the UK for the fast-growing
global hydrogen economy.

HII is working with >200 companies and 10 sector bodies in the UK, to
coordinate innovation in 9 critical technology areas across:

Hydrogen Hydrogen Hydrogen Use

Production Distribution

HII is working with industry to drive innovation and supply chain development,
working across UK industry and with support from our Industrial Advisory Board:
bp, Airbus, Cummins, GKN Aerospace, Glass Futures, H2Go, Hydrogen
Energy Association, Hydrogen UK, Johnson Matthey, National Gas, ZeroAvia

HII is generating technology roadmaps, forecasting sector demand and markets,

and mapping UK capability. Supported by
Innovate UK
Andy Lord
Hydrogen Safe
Jobs, Skills & Safety
Q&A
Lunch Break
12:30-14:00