{"id":5764,"date":"2025-06-04T06:46:45","date_gmt":"2025-06-04T06:46:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cita.co.uk\/news\/?p=5764"},"modified":"2025-06-04T06:46:45","modified_gmt":"2025-06-04T06:46:45","slug":"kier-ditches-diesel-for-hydrogen-in-green-major-site-power-trial","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cita.co.uk\/news\/kier-ditches-diesel-for-hydrogen-in-green-major-site-power-trial\/","title":{"rendered":"Kier ditches diesel for hydrogen in green major site power trial"},"content":{"rendered":"

Kier and the Environment Agency are hailing early success from a groundbreaking trial to ditch diesel in favour of solar power and green hydrogen on site.<\/p>\n

The 12-month test at the \u00a3250m Bridgwater Tidal Barrier scheme in Somerset is assessing whether off-grid sites can run their welfare and office facilities on a combination of solar panels, hydrogen fuel cells and battery storage.<\/p>\n

From January to April, the system clocked up 16,000 kWh of clean power \u2014 with over 6,600 kWh from solar, 9,100 kWh from hydrogen, and just 300kWh drawn from back-up batteries.<\/p>\n

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Compared to a traditional diesel generator, the trial has already saved around 20,000 litres of diesel and avoided 53 tonnes of CO\u2082e \u2014 equal to driving 195,000 miles in a diesel car or taking 350 flights from London to Glasgow.<\/p>\n

As well as slashing emissions, the setup has helped cut noise and eliminate diesel spill risks.<\/p>\n

Jo Driffield, senior engineer at the Environment Agency, said: \u201cThis trial is a big step forward in helping the EA realise our net zero goals. It also demonstrates the demand for green hydrogen, which is critical to decarbonising construction.\u201d<\/p>\n

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TCP Group supplied the hybrid power system. Managing director Andrew Barker called it \u201cour largest-ever hybrid hydrogen welfare solution\u201d and said it was already delivering a fantastic opportunity to shape future energy practices.<\/p>\n

Kier\u2019s Hannah McIlroy added: \u201cWe\u2019re working closely with our clients and supply chain to cut emissions and share learnings across the industry.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Kier and the Environment Agency are hailing early success from a groundbreaking trial to ditch diesel in favour of solar power and green hydrogen on site. The 12-month test at the \u00a3250m Bridgwater Tidal Barrier scheme in Somerset is assessing whether off-grid sites can run their welfare and office facilities on a combination of solar […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":156,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[9],"class_list":["post-5764","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-construction-enquirer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cita.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5764","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cita.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cita.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cita.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cita.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5764"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cita.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5764\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5765,"href":"https:\/\/cita.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5764\/revisions\/5765"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cita.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/153"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cita.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5764"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cita.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5764"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cita.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5764"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}