Environment Agency
Details
The following environmental regulators (referred to as the regulators) commissioned this review of emerging techniques:
- Environment Agency
- Natural Resources Wales
- Northern Ireland Environment Agency (an executive agency of the Department of Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs)
- Scottish Environment Protection Agency
The review provides information about the main environmental issues to address and best practice available on a selection of hydrogen production with carbon dioxide capture options. This is new technology and there is limited evidence or data available for performance of comparable sites.
The regulators have also produced a summary of emerging techniques guidance because there is no existing guidance specific to the production of hydrogen when combined with carbon dioxide capture and storage.
The regulators envisage that this review of emerging techniques and the emerging techniques guidance will be used by:
- operators when designing their plants and preparing their application for an environmental permit
- their own staff when determining environmental permits
- any other organisation or members of the public who want to understand how the environmental regulations and standards are being applied