![]() Energy firm Centrica reopened its Rough storage facility last year, but industry bosses say more is needed. Recent swings in the price of natural gas has shown how little resilience the UK has in energy storage in the wake of Russia’s attack on Ukraine. To do so it will flood the caverns with seawater to dissolve the salt and pump it back into the bay, which environmental campaigners said would create a “dead zone” because of the high concentration of salt, killing marine life. The facility has a potential 40-year lifespan, as it could also store hydrogen as a green alternative to methane when natural gas is phased out. It would store enough gas for 14 days of supply for Northern Ireland, or about 25pc of the UK’s storage needs. ![]() ![]() The company wants to flood a network of salt caverns under Larne Lough off the coast of County Antrim to store gas more than a kilometre under sea level. Harland & Wolff, owner of the shipyard that built the Titanic, has overcome a challenge from Friends of the Earth to develop a natural gas storage site in Northern Ireland.
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