For 56 years, Bacton has been a site of critical national infrastructure and core to our country’s energy provision and landscape.
Gas will be needed for many decades to come, but with the energy landscape evolving, an integrated system with carbon capture and storage (CCS) and hydrogen production is in the mix – and Bacton is the ideal location.
On 19 September, EEEGR hosted a visit attended by members of the All-Party Parliamentary Group – MPs Steffan Aquarone MP, Jerome Mayhew and Alice Macdonald – key stakeholders and councillors, for a tour of Bacton Gas Terminal facilitated by Perenco General Manager Jonathan (“Jo”) White to hear about its crucial role and the vision for its future.
The visit was a result of EEEGR‘s delegation to the House of Commons in April.
BACK BACTON was one of our five key asks of the Government when appealing for it to cease overlooking the significance of the east of England as a key energy hub.
Kevin Keable, Chair of EEEGR (East of England Energy Group) said: “Bacton is ideally placed to be a carbon capture hub and hydrogen manufacturing hub for UK and European companies. We sit in the centre of Europe and have the best fields that can take carbon and store it for thousands of years. It is hugely important to us as a region, to the country and for climate change.”
Alongside our key figures we also invited in BBC News, ITV and the Eastern Daily Press to get behind the scenes and to understand more about the appeal to government to back plans to transform Bacton Gas Terminal into an energy hub for hydrogen production and carbon capture and storage (CCS) with both investment and planning, bringing with it local business and jobs for decades, while tackling climate change.
One job already secured is for 17-year-old Matilda Gent, who grew up in Bacton and wanted to find out more. Work experience has now turned into an apprenticeship with National Gas at Bacton and we were delighted that Matilda could join us for the day and be part of the successful news coverage.
