Repowering the Black Country Phase 2 Cluster Plan

黑国是BEIS和Innovate UK支持的英国七大战略产业集群之一，旨在到2040年实现脱碳。到2030年，如果不采取激进行动，黑国工业每年的二氧化碳排放量将达到2.3百万吨。黑国工业的工业基地有3000多家高耗能企业，其中许多仍在从事该地区传统的金属加工业务。该项目旨在通过一项转型项目的协调计划，到2030年将这些排放降至零，该计划聚焦于一种新型工业区：零碳中心。零碳中心将以锚定工业流程为基础，经过战略选择，以匹配黑人国家的技能和优势(例如铝再加工)。每个枢纽将包含一系列精心挑选的企业，通过考虑它们的能源和废物流动来相互补充。例如，在金属制造产生大量废热的情况下，这些废热可能被用来产生蒸汽，用于食品加工或城市农业，或者通过区域供暖计划供应给邻近的房屋或办公室。每个枢纽都将有自己的能源中心，旨在与脱碳的国家电网合作，以具有全球竞争力的成本向黑县工业提供清洁电力和热量。其中许多能源中心将围绕黑人国家制造的新能源技术建立，将商业废物转化为热、电和氢气。该项目将与英国海岸周围的其他产业集群合作，建立新的氢和碳供应链和市场。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和创新中心(IDRIC)合作，在黑人国家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，并刺激部署另外10-50个中心，以在2030年前实现集群的零碳目标。创新英国基金将与少量经济发展基金一起使用，以刺激该地区超过10亿GB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.