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Kraft Heinz to develop its first green hydrogen plant at UK site

Kraft Heinz to develop its first green hydrogen plant at UK site
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The Kraft Heinz Company has signed an agreement with Carlton Power, the UK energy infrastructure development company, to study the development of a renewable green hydrogen plant at its Kitt Green manufacturing plant in Wigan, Greater Manchester.

Kitt Green is one of the largest food processing plants in Europe and one of the largest Kraft Heinz facilities in the world, producing a quarter of a million tons of food annually and employing approximately 850 people.


The proposed 20MW Kitt Green hydrogen plant, the first to be taken forward by Kraft Heinz globally, will meet more than 50 per cent of the plant’s annual natural gas demand and reduce the plant’s carbon emissions by 16000 tonnes per year. The hydrogen will be produced by an electrolyser using electricity generated from sources of renewable energy, primarily wind and solar power.

“Our agreement with Carlton Power is an important step forward in our efforts to reduce carbon emissions and achieve our global goal of net zero emissions by 2050, with a 50 percent reduction in emissions by 2030,” Jojo Lins De Noronha, president, Northern Europe at The Kraft Heinz Company, said.

“We’re excited to partner together to develop our first, renewable hydrogen energy project globally and hope to see more projects like these in the future.”

The Kitt Green project is the fifth green hydrogen project that Carlton Power is taking forward within the UK.

Eric Adams, hydrogen projects director at Carlton Power, said: “We’re delighted to be working with Kraft Heinz to bring forward a green hydrogen facility at Kitt Green to help the company accelerate its efforts to decarbonise their operations. It is critical that projects like this are brought forward to support British companies, especially in manufacturing, in reducing their carbon emissions and reaching Net Zero.”

Subject to planning approval and financing, the £40 million Carlton/Kraft Heinz renewable hydrogen scheme is earmarked to enter operation in 2026.

Its construction will be contingent on securing financial support from the UK government’s second Hydrogen Allocation Round (HAR2) of the Hydrogen Production Business Model (HPBM), which the government has launched to support UK industry’s switch to hydrogen and encourage growth of the hydrogen economy across the country.

Over the next 12-18 months, Kraft Heinz and Carlton Power will seek to obtain planning permission for the scheme. In parallel, the two companies will work together to obtain grant funding and operational financial support from the UK Department of Energy Supply and Net Zero (DESNZ) with a target to deliver hydrogen to Kitt Green in 2026-27.

In 2021, Kraft Heinz announced its goal to achieve net zero greenhouse gas emissions across its operational footprint (Scope 1 and Scope 2) and entire global supply chain (Scope 3) by 2050.

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