Learnings

Outcomes

This project is set to continue to completion. Final reports are yet to be issued, reviewed, agreed upon and finally closed. Contingent on
the final reports of this project it is likely that further work will be required to further de-risk key engineering designs which will allow further
reassurance when it comes to the consenting strategy.
One of the key outcomes from the project has been that linepack does not provide sufficient storage to operate the network. This means
that additional storage must be sought and in the North West of England the optimum way to do this is via underground storage in salt
cavern storage. Cadent has therefore had preliminary meetings with potential storage partners.
However, with the work that has been completed to date has given the HyNet project team a clear understanding of the consenting,
engineering and operational control and philosophy for a hydrogen pipeline.
All of this learning will be vital to identify critical tasks and early risk to designing, building and finally operating a hydrogen pipeline. This
work has been briefed to the relevant experts within Cadent to ensure early sight of any risks which may exist and the mitigations can be
subsequently discussed. This work will now be brought forward and further developed through a tailored FEED and consenting work
package. 

Lessons Learnt

The biggest lesson learnt was that the management and interaction of the project had to move online onto virtual platforms due to the C19
restrictions being imposed. Whilst it is always preferable to have meetings in persons this project has managed to progress well.