Project set on becoming Britain’s largest energy storage hub eyes Port of Barrow as onshore base
England-based energy transition-focused player EnergyPathways has joined forces with Associated British Ports (ABP), the UK’s largest ports group, to jointly evaluate the Port of Barrow on the southwest coast of Cumbria as the onshore facilities site for its large-scale energy storage project in the East Irish Sea.
EnergyPathways and ABP have signed a collaboration agreement to evaluate the Port of Barrow as a location to develop the Marram Energy Storage Hub (MESH) project, which is expected to be the UK’s largest integrated energy storage project, bolstering Britain’s energy security and lowering consumer bills.
The two companies will examine the feasibility of building at ABP’s Port of Barrow a CAES storage operations base, a gas and hydrogen storage operations base, connection infrastructure for the project’s offshore storage facilities, hydrogen and graphite production facilities, and sustainable industrial processing and export facilities.
The development of these facilities is subject to a commercial
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