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Safe Net Zero 2025: Safety considerations for the production and large scale storage of hydrogen and its derivatives

25-26 November 2025

Kimpton Charlotte Square Hotel, Edinburgh

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Overview

To make Great Britain a safe, green energy superpower, new hydrogen production and storage projects need to build in safety from the start, whilst existing ones need to continue to manage safety risks effectively throughout the project lifecycle.

To help industry, government and academia achieve this, HSE is once again bringing together key hydrogen stakeholders to share knowledge and experiences, so that together they can ensure the safe development and roll out of hydrogen technologies.

We have put together a two-day programme of safety-focused thought leadership and the latest technological insights from several major UK and international projects producing and storing both hydrogen and its derivatives.

 

Conference programme

Day 1: Tuesday 25 November

9:00am: Session 1 - Welcome

  • Arrival, registration and refreshments
  • Welcome: Stuart Hawksworth, Health and Safety Executive (HSE)
  • Virtual welcome: Sarah Newton, Health and Safety Executive (HSE)
  • Keynote address: Harry Brazier, Department for Energy Security and Net Zero (DESNZ)

10:45am: Session 2 - The international picture

  • Session introduction: Kate Jeffrey, Health and Safety Executive (HSE)
  • Latest insights into international liquid hydrogen research: Thomas Jordan, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany
  • Ensuring safe and efficient ammonia transport from NEOM to international markets: Simon Earnshaw, Air Products
  • Asia Pacific and its hydrogen priorities: Nick Smith, Global Decarbonisation Advisory
  • Panel Q&A

1:40pm: Session 3 - Research and innovation

  • Session introduction: Nigel Holmes, Hydrogen Scotland
  • FutureGrid: Results from live trials: Lloyd Mitchell, National Gas
  • The role of hydrogen in a decarbonised energy system: Sarah Kimpton, DNV
  • Enabling hydrogen flight to take off - learning by doing, a testing perspective: Mark Eldridge, Element
  • Developing the safety case for membrane-free electrolysis: Paul Cassidy, CPH2
  • Panel Q&A

4:00pm: Session 4 - Large-scale hydrogen production and storage in the UK

  • Session introduction - Large scale hydrogen storage and production options and challenges: Nigel Holmes, Hydrogen Scotland
  • Safety considerations for electrolytic hydrogen production: Joe Bailey, Progressive Energy
  • Transforming Rough storage for the future energy system: Chris McClane, Centrica
  • Chlor-Alkali experience: Enabling safe and scalable green hydrogen production: Rob Craig, INEOS
  • Panel Q&A

Day 2: Wednesday 26 November

9:00am: Session 1 - Options and challenges for large-scale storage

  • Session introduction: Chair, Stew McEwen, SJM 2050 Ltd
  • Safety aspects of hydrogen storage projects: Hippolyte Djizanne, INERIS
  • Storage and transportation - the implications of scaling hydrogen: Will France, ERM
  • Safety aspects of Hydrogen in the LTS trial at Grangemouth: Nancy Thomson, SGN
  • Panel Q&A

11:30am: Session 2 - Standards and guidance

  • Session introduction: Ian McCluskey, IGEM
  • Addressing net zero health and safety challenges: Mark Scanlon, Energy Institute
  • Jacqui Lang and Ian Brocklebank, SEPA
  • Environmental permitting and guidance for hydrogen production: Jane Durling, Environment Agency
  • Panel Q&A

2:10pm: Session 3 - Principles for good practice

  • Session introduction: Charles Oakley, Health and Safety Executive (HSE)
  • Scaling and tailoring safety assurance on the journey to large scale storage: Ed Macfarlane, Abbot Risk Consulting
  • Leveraging inherent safety to reduce hydrogen project risks and costs: Helen Conlin, Cairn Risk
  • Safety distances of hydrogen installations: global approaches and UK perspective: Stuart Williams, Air Products
  • How far is enough? Novel tool to calculate separation distances for H2 installations: Karina Almeida, Gexcon
  • Panel Q&A
  • Closing remarks

(all session timings are approximate)

 

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