BP has shelved plans to build a major hydrogen project in Teesside in a fresh blow to Ed Miliband’s net zero plans. The two proposed sites were earmarked on overlapping plots of land, pitting the Energy Secretary – who was relying on the BP project to meet his net zero ambitions – against the Prime Minister and Peter Kyle, the Business Secretary. BP said a decision by the Labour-led Redcar and Cleveland council to throw its weight behind the data centre ultimately made its project unviable. In a letter to the Energy Department, a spokesman for the BP-backed H2Teesside project insisted its decision had “not been taken lightly”. It said it still believed hydrogen had “an important role to play in the future energy market”.

Source: The Times December 02, 2025 08:32 UTC