Energy estuary27 Feb 2020 18:24
It's become known as the Energy Estuary.
Now a new blueprint has been published mapping out how the Humber region aims to live up to that billing in the future.
It includes a series of projects ranging from large-scale industrial carbon capture schemes to a wave of new mini-solar farms being developed on brownfield sites in towns and villages.
If they all become reality by 2032, the region's energy sector will employ 20,570people having attracted £6.7bn worth of investment into the economy.
In addition, experts say the results will deliver a 72 per cent reduction in damaging CO2 emissions.
The Humber Local Enterprise Partnership says it wants its new Energy Strategy to involve homeowners and community groups as well as businesses.
ABP is investing £6.8m in solar panels at the Port of Hull (Image: ABP)
LEP chairman Lord Haskins said encouraging residents to go green would be a crucial step over the next few years.
"This ambitious new strategy will see the Humber adapting a clean energy strategy from the ground up, whether that is individual homeowners bringing in new technology such as heat pumps, to housing developers creating smart energy networks or schools and colleges using solar panels on their sites.
"We are already known as the Energy Estuary and we are a leader in large-scale renewable energy but this shows that even down to a very localised - or even individual level - change is possible."
The 13 potential projects featured in the strategy also include creating a new network of charging stations for electric vehicles and encouraging the use of gas-powered buses, bin lorries and heavy goods vehicles by public sector organisations as well as commercial operators.
The potential to develop new hydrogen production facilities is also included along with new community-based district heating schemes.
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