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Including world leading manufacturers, our partnership brings together companies, regional leaders, and a network of academic experts. We’re proud of our collaboration with industrial powerhouses of the Liverpool and Manchester City Regions, as well as Cheshire and Warrington, working closely with partners in Lancashire, Cumbria and North Wales.


Net Zero North West unites industry and communities, providing a forward-thinking/leading voice and holistic vision for industrial decarbonisation in the North West. 
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Our partners are committed to working together to deliver change that is not only essential in supporting the energy intensive industries that make this region thrive, but critical in reaching the UK’s net zero targets.
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The region has a long history of collaboration with business, regional leaders, and academia, working together to share knowledge and best practice. That’s why we are also supported by senior members of the City Regions, Local Enterprise Partnerships, academia and regional industry bodies.


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The North West is the only region which already has all the elements required to deliver a low carbon industrial cluster by 2030 – including renewables, hydrogen, carbon capture usage and storage, nuclear and smart grids.
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The region boasts the largest concentration of advanced manufacturing and chemical production in the UK and is home to a large scale of energy intensive users. Traditionally strong in textiles, shipping, and engineering, we are home to leading ICT, biotechnology, pharmaceuticals, aerospace, and telecommunications businesses.


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We have excellent air, rail, and road transport links – plus the iconic Port of Liverpool that continues to serve as a key international transport hub.
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We have the industry and infrastructure to deliver alongside natural geological assets such as the Irish Sea gas fields, with the capacity for decades of emissions disposal. Not only that, the Cheshire salt caverns are perfectly positioned for hydrogen storage.
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As the birthplace of modern industry, the North West is best placed to lead the UK on a journey of industrial decarbonisation and into a prosperous and truly sustainable future.

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Net Zero North West has unveiled its ground-breaking manifesto aimed at making the region the world’s first net zero cluster, with backing from Greater Manchester metro mayor Andy Burnham and Liverpool City Region metro mayor, Steve Rotheram.  

Net Zero North West is a collaboration of industry leaders, politicians and academic experts all joined together by one central goal – to drive the North West’s potential to be a global leader in industrial decarbonisation. 
 
**Job creation**
The much-anticipated manifesto, announced today by Net Zero North West, is set to create and safeguard over 600,000 jobs, while highlighting the action needed to substantially decarbonise regional industry by 2030 and achieve net zero emissions by 2040.  
 
**A global leader**
The roadmap includes plans for greater energy efficiency, nuclear energy generation and improved rail infrastructure, enabling the region to lead the UK’s charge in tackling climate change. 
 
It outlines a £30bn pipeline of live investable projects, with the opportunity for £207bn to be invested in the region overall, all aimed at decarbonising major industrial sectors in the region. 
 
**UK leader for job creation and new green technology**
Research shows that the North West is the nation’s leader of manufacturing new, low-carbon technology, and has the highest number of potential jobs in green tech manufacturing. This is thanks to its rich industrial history and resources already in place, such as Burbo Bank offshore wind farm in Liverpool Bay and the Stanlow refinery in Ellesmere Port. 

**Driving government support**
At the heart of the plan is a call for increased government support and assistance to drive key technologies like hydrogen and Carbon Capture Utilisation and Storage (CCUS), develop enabling infrastructure, enhance regional communications, build appropriate skills and workforce, and provide overarching leadership to monitor progress and support project delivery. 
 
Ged Barlow, Chief Executive at Net Zero North West, comments: “Substantially decarbonising regional industry by 2030, and getting to net zero emissions by 2040, is an opportunity that presents significant economic benefits, both regionally and nationally. It will create and protect high value jobs and position the UK at the forefront of global industrial emissions reductions. 
 
“Our plans underscore the importance of collaboration and collective action in addressing the challenges of climate change. By setting ambitious targets and working towards a common goal of sustainability, we can inspire other regions to follow suit and join the global movement towards a greener, more sustainable future.” 

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Steve Rotheram, Mayor of the Liverpool City Region, comments:  

“Climate change presents a global challenge on a scale like nothing we’ve ever seen – and it will require a huge, collective response to tackle it. The Liverpool City Region was the first region in the country to officially recognise that by declaring a climate emergency, and, while we had already set ourselves the ambitious aim to be net zero carbon by 2040, we are now revising our target to 2035 – the most ambitious regional target in the country. "

“From the work we’re doing to position ourselves as Britain’s Renewable Energy Coast, to bringing national infrastructure projects like Mersey Tidal Power to life, to the cleaner, greener public transport network we’re building, our area is firing on all cylinders to make sure we do our bit for the planet – and the region’s economy. 
 
“Overcoming climate change is not something that can be accomplished solely in our region, the UK, or even in Europe - but that won’t stop the North West doing everything we can to play the biggest part possible.” 
 
Here at NZNW we are determined to lead the charge towards a sustainable future and we want to call on all stakeholders to join forces in this critical effort.  
 
For more information on Net Zero North West and our transformative vision for a decarbonised industrial cluster, read the manifesto in full [here](https://netzeronw.co.uk/manifesto).



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Net Zero North West has unveiled its ground-breaking manifesto aimed at making the region the world’s first net zero cluster, with backing from Greater Manchester metro mayor Andy Burnham and Liverpool City Region metro mayor, Steve Rotheram.

Net Zero North West launches its Manifesto with full support from Manchester and Liverpool Metro Mayors

Who we are

Who we are | Net Zero North West 

Invest Net Zero Cheshire will deliver a blueprint for unlocking capital investment in a net zero carbon industrial cluster in the Ellesmere Port region over a 10-year period. It will define a range of future local energy system designs to inform a range of potential capital investment opportunities in infrastructure, energy generation/distribution/storage, control systems, and related products and services able to provide secure, low carbon, affordable energy. 

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Invest Net Zero Cheshire

The UK’s leading low carbon hydrogen and CCUS project offers a low cost, low risk route to decarbonise the North West industrial cluster and other sectors of the regional economy. Kick starting the hydrogen economy, it will deliver a material contribution to Net Zero and considerable economic benefit. Repurposing Liverpool Bay gas fields infrastructure provides a low capital entry for CCUS deployment of 1 million tonnes of CO2 per year with incremental growth to 10 million tonnes per year and beyond.

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HyNet

Protos is a strategic cluster of energy generation and energy intensive industry in Cheshire. With over 54 hectares consented and a wider masterplan extending to 280 hectares. Existing infrastructure includes a 50 MW wind farm and 26MW biomass facility. Protos has the opportunity for carbon capture and storage and will provide multi energy vector local networks to support energy intensive industry.

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Protos

The high tidal range in Liverpool Bay and the Mersey estuary provides a unique opportunity to reliably generate abundant and predictable long-term renewable energy. Progression of the new scheme over the next decade will ‘lock-in’ long term, low carbon generation for the urban and industrial area for a century. The scheme is an important jigsaw piece in the whole energy system integration of electricity, storage and hydrogen and will provide resilience in the wider region network, whilst also providing a boost in employment and skills for the city region.

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Mersey Tidal Power Project

Storengy UK, in partnership with Cheshire East Council, have built a green hydrogen refuelling station in Middlewich, Cheshire. The facility produces hydrogen in the greenest way possible – using an electrolyser connected to solar panels. This provides safe, clean hydrogen fuel, which will be pumped into dual-fuel bin trucks used by the council and a Storengy works vehicle. The project reduces diesel usage by more than 10,000 litres per year, reducing CO2 emissions and improving local air quality benefits.

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Project Vanguard

HySecure is a bespoke solution mined hydrogen storage salt cavern, capable of storing 50GWh of energy (1100 tonnes of hydrogen working gas volume). The cavern can be used to demonstrate flexible hydrogen storage to de-risk future large scale hydrogen storage facilities. Equally the cavern can provide back-up hydrogen supply services to other hydrogen projects in the North West region increasing the overall resilience of the nascent hydrogen supply industry.

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HySecure

Centurion is a “power to gas” large scale (100MW) demonstration project to capture under-utilized green electricity, convert to hydrogen, store the hydrogen in a repurposed (gas storage) salt cavern and then export the hydrogen to the gas grid when required. The system can make a significant contribution to the decarbonisation of the electricity and gas grids and by coupling the two, it can provide useful energy storage, reducing renewable curtailment and constraints.

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Centurion 

A UK-first Carbon Capture and Utilisation project to capture 40,000 tonnes of food grade carbon dioxide for use as a raw material for high grade Sodium Bicarbonate manufacture in Cheshire. The project captures flue gases from the combined heat and power plant at Tata Chemicals Europe’s Northwich industrial site in Cheshire. This plant will enable more than 10% of carbon dioxide produced by our combined heat and power plant (CHP) to be recycled, purified, and used as a key raw material to produce high grade sodium bicarbonate.

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Carbon Capture & Utilisation 

ABB is working with Statkraft – Europe’s largest generator of renewable energy – to design, manufacture and install two high-inertia synchronous condenser systems for the Lister Drive Greener Grid project in Liverpool. The innovative project will play a key role in stabilizing the local grid to handle an increased amount of wind and solar power.

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