HYRO Energy Limited is a joint venture between RES and Octopus Energy Generation. HYRO has been established to deliver home-grown, reliable and cost-competitive sources of clean hydrogen from renewables to help energy-intensive industrial businesses decarbonise hard-to-electrify processes.

HYRO is developing green hydrogen solutions to make the most of local renewable sources of energy when it’s sunny and windy, helping to reduce emissions and boost energy security.

In August 2024, HYRO received consent for Northfleet Green Hydrogen Electrolyser production and storage facility on land at Kimberly-Clark’s Northfleet manufacturing facility in Gravesend, Kent.

The manufacturing facility will use a new dual-fuelled boiler which will be able to run on hydrogen and natural gas as a back up. This will help to decarbonise the paper-making process for much-loved household brands like Andrex®.

To optimise the efficiency of the green hydrogen project, a small number of changes are needed to the consented scheme, and we are currently preparing a new planning application to be submitted in the coming weeks. Further information will be available on this website soon.

For further information on the project, please click here.