Repowering the Black Country Phase 2 Cluster Plan

黑国是英国七个战略产业集群之一，由BEIS和Innovate UK支持，到2040年实现脱碳。如果不采取激进行动，到2030年，黑国工业每年将排放230万吨二氧化碳，其工业基地有3000多家能源密集型企业，其中许多仍从事该地区传统的金属加工业务。该项目旨在通过围绕新型工业园区的转型项目协调方案，到2030年将这些排放减少到零：零碳中心。零碳中心将围绕核心工业流程进行战略选择，以匹配黑国的技能和优势（例如铝再加工）。每个中心将包含精心挑选的企业组合，通过考虑其能源和废物流来相互补充。例如，在金属制造产生大量废热的地方，这些废热可以用来产生用于食品加工或城市农业的蒸汽，或者通过区域供热计划供应给邻近的住房或办公室。每个中心都将有自己的能源中心，旨在与脱碳的国家电网一起工作，以具有全球竞争力的成本为黑国工业提供清洁电力和热能。许多这样的能源中心将围绕黑国制造的将商业废物转化为热能、电能和氢气的新能源技术而建。该项目将与英国沿海地区的其他产业集群合作，为氢和碳建立新的供应链和市场。我们将与伯明翰大学和华威大学以及爱丁堡的工业脱碳研究与创新中心（IDRIC）合作，在黑国部署最新的能源技术和循环经济方法。我们预计在项目的两年期间发展四个示范中心，并刺激另外10-50个示范中心的部署，以实现到2030年集群的零碳目标。“创新英国”资金将与少量经济发展资金一起用于刺激该地区超过10亿英镑的商业投资。

The Black Country is one of seven strategic industrial clusters across the UK being supported by BEIS and Innovate UK to decarbonise by 2040\. By 2030, without radical action, Black Country industry will be responsible for 2.3MtCO2 emissions a year, from an industrial base of more than 3000 energy-intense businesses, many still engaged in the region's traditional metal processing operations.This project aims to reduce these emissions to zero by 2030 through a co-ordinated programme of transformational projects focused around a new type of industrial estate: the zero carbon hub.Zero carbon hubs will be based around anchor industrial processes, strategically-selected to match Black Country skills and strengths (for example aluminium reprocessing). Each hub will contain a mix of businesses carefully selected to complement each other by thinking about their energy and waste flows. For example, where metal manufacturing results in significant quantities of waste heat, this might be used to generate steam for use in food processing or urban agriculture, or supplied to neighbouring housing or offices via district heating schemes.Each hub will have its own energy centre, designed to work alongside a decarbonised national electricity grid to supply Black Country industry with clean power and heat at globally-competitive costs. Many of these energy centres will be built around Black Country-manufactured new energy technologies converting commercial waste into heat, electricity and hydrogen.The project will work with other industrial clusters around the UK coast to build new supply chains and markets for hydrogen and carbon. We will work with the Universities of Birmingham and Warwick and with the Industrial Decarbonisation Research and Innovation Centre (IDRIC) in Edinburgh to deploy the latest energy technologies and circular economy methods in the Black Country.We anticipate developing four demonstration hubs during the two year period of the project and stimulating the deployment of a further 10-50 to achieve the cluster's zero carbon goal by 2030\. Innovate UK funding will be used alongside a small amount of economic development funding to stimulate over £1bn of commercial investment in the region.