Image source, BPImage caption, H2Teesside would have been one of the largest blue hydrogen plants in the UK, BP saidByJason Arunn MurugesuNorth East and CumbriaPublished1 December 2025 BP has pulled out of building a hydrogen plant on Teesside following a row over whether the site would be better suited to housing a data centre instead. A government decision on whether the plant at Teesworks in Redcar could be built had been due this week. But the energy firm backed out before the decision could be made, citing a "material change in circumstances" to the land that the plant had been due to be built on. The project, H2Teesside, had been mired in controversy after landowners South Tees Group (STG) sought permission to build a data centre there instead. STG has been approached for comment. BP said the data centre planning application had been part of the "material change in circumstances" the land had faced.
Published: December 1, 2025 5:41 pm
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