The collaboration agreement will see the two companies assess the feasibility of developing onshore infrastructure at the Cumbria port to support the large-scale integrated energy storage scheme in the East Irish Sea. MESH, which has been designated a project of \u2018national significance\u2019 by the UK government, is expected to become Britain\u2019s largest integrated energy storage project.<\/p>\n
Ralph Windeatt, business development director at ABP said the port operator had a strong track record supporting critical energy projects. \u201cThe Port of Barrow, specifically, has played a key role in the development and operation of the offshore wind industry in the Irish Sea,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe MESH Project is an opportunity to further strengthen the port\u2019s long-term future, and support the delivery of Barrow\u2019s masterplan and contribute to the UK\u2019s energy transition.\u201d<\/p>\n
Fuel storage<\/strong><\/p>\n The proposed development combines compressed air energy storage with natural gas and hydrogen storage using subsea salt caverns. Subject to planning approvals and financing, the project is targeted to begin operations in 2031.<\/p>\n Under the agreement, EnergyPathways and ABP will examine the potential construction of operations bases for compressed air, gas and hydrogen storage, alongside offshore connection infrastructure, hydrogen and graphite production facilities, and sustainable industrial export facilities.<\/p>\n EnergyPathways said MESH would help reduce Britain\u2019s reliance on imported gas and support the wider transition to lower-carbon energy systems by harnessing surplus wind power currently wasted during periods of excess generation.<\/p>\n \u201cABP\u2019s Port of Barrow provides access to our offshore storage development areas in the East Irish Sea alongside strategically located land, port facilities and export infrastructure that could be well suited to supporting MESH\u2019s onshore facilities and production units,\u201d said Ben Clube, chief executive of EnergyPathways.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" EnergyPathways has teamed up with Associated British Ports (ABP) to evaluate the Port of Barrow as a strategic base for the company\u2019s Marram Energy Storage Hub (MESH) project.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":6344,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,46,34,8],"tags":[28,40,155,2576,10,2575,2577,345,1779],"sponsor":[],"class_list":["post-6343","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-alternative-fuels-greenport","category-energy-technology-greenport","category-europe-greenport","category-projects-initiatives-greenport","tag-abp","tag-alternative-fuels","tag-energy-storage","tag-energypathways","tag-hydrogen","tag-mesh","tag-natural-gas","tag-offshore-wind","tag-port-of-barrow"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6343","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6343"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6343\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6345,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6343\/revisions\/6345"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6344"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6343"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6343"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6343"},{"taxonomy":"sponsor","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/sponsor?post=6343"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}