The Barrow Green Hydrogen project is being delivered by Green Hydrogen Energy Company (GHECO), the joint venture established in 2023 by Schroders Greencoat, the specialist renewables and energy transition infrastructure manager, and Carlton Power, the British independent energy infrastructure company (previously referred to as the Carlton Power/Schroders Greencoat joint venture).

The Barrow project will supply c100GWh of green hydrogen per annum to Kimberly-Clark's manufacturing plant in the town, where the company manufactures consumer products including Andrex® and Kleenex®. The Kimberly-Clark Barrow site will reduce its consumption of natural gas by up to 50% with a reduction of 18,300 tonnes of CO2 emissions. Meanwhile, a long-term power purchase agreement with SEFE, an international energy company and the former Gazprom Germania, which was nationalized in 2022, has been agreed on for the supply of renewable electricity.

Under the finalized agreement, Plug will supply 30 MW of its GenEco™ Proton Exchange Membrane (PEM) electrolyzers.

The Barrow project will feature six 5 MW Plug GenEco PEM electrolyzers, using renewable electricity to produce green hydrogen. The project was originally announced as part of Plug's award to supply a combined 55 MW of GenEco electrolyzers across three UK green hydrogen projects: Barrow, Trafford and Langage. With FID now in place, Barrow is the first of GHECO's three projects to move into execution. Trafford and Langage continue to progress toward their respective FIDs. Together, the three projects serve as blueprints for industrial decarbonization and energy security, advancing the UK's low-carbon hydrogen ambitions.

The three hydrogen projects are supported under the UK Government's Hydrogen Business Model through its Hydrogen Allocation Round 1 (HAR1). Once operational, the Barrow-in-Furness facility is expected to be a major driver of the hydrogen economy in North-West England.