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Agreement with ABP to locate MESH facilities
EnergyPathways plc has entered into a collaboration agreement with Associated British Ports (ABP) to evaluate ABP's Port of Barrow as the onshore site for its Marram Energy Storage Hub (MESH) project. This nationally significant project aims to bolster UK energy security and lower consumer bills by combining compressed air, natural gas, and hydrogen storage, with potential operation starting in 2031. The evaluation will cover the feasibility of constructing CAES and gas/hydrogen storage operations bases, connection infrastructure, and hydrogen and graphite production facilities. This development aligns with UK energy and industrial strategies and is supported by the government's Team Barrow initiative. Disclaimer*
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[{"type":"text","content":"\n\n13 May 2026\n \nEnergyPathways plc\n(\"EnergyPathways\" or the \"Company\")\nAgreement with ABP to locate MESH onshore facilities at Port of Barrow\nEnergyPathways and ABP to evaluate Port of Barrow as a location to develop its nationally significant MESH energy storage project\nEnergyPathways (AIM:EPP), the energy transition company, has signed a collaboration agreement with Associated British Ports (\"ABP\"), the UK's leading and largest ports group, to jointly evaluate ABP's Port of Barrow, on the south-west coast of Cumbria, for the Company's onshore facilities for its large-scale Marram Energy Storage Hub project (\"the MESH Project\" or \"MESH\").\n\n ABP Port of Barrow\n \nThe MESH project is expected to be Britain's largest integrated energy storage project and will bolster Britain's energy security and lower consumer bills. Designated a project of \"national significance\" by the UK Government, MESH combines compressed air electrical storage (\"CAES\") with natural gas and hydrogen storage. Located in the Irish Sea and connected into Barrow-in-Furness, the project utilises large scale subsea storage, designed to store energy in a highly cost-effective manner. Its licence area has the potential to support the construction of up to 60 sub-surface salt caverns and subject to approvals and financing, MESH is targeted to enter operation in 2031.\n \nMESH will harness Britain's mounting wasted wind energy, which costs consumers billions per year. It will generate multi-day, dispatchable power at a lower cost and with lower emissions than gas-fired power plants. It will also more than double Britain's gas storage capacity, storing around six days of national supply to bolster the UK's energy security. Energy storage at MESH will reduce Britain's dependency on gas power generators and costly gas imports which currently control electricity prices and are vulnerable to global gas price hikes.\n \nAt ABP's Port of Barrow, the two companies will examine the feasibility of building:\n· a CAES storage operations base;\n· a gas and hydrogen storage operations base;\n· connection infrastructure for the project's offshore storage facilities\n· hydrogen and graphite production fa...