The companies involved include some of the largest businesses in the Humber region: Associated British Ports; Centrica Storage Ltd; Drax Group; Equinor; National Grid Ventures; Phillips 66 Ltd; px Group; SSE Thermal; Saltend Cogeneration Company Limited; VPI-Immingham LLP; and Uniper.

The plan has the potential to contribute to the future prosperity of the UK’s largest industrial hub, which contributes £18bn towards UK Gross Value Added (GVA), and to safeguard 55,000 jobs in manufacturing across the region.

The call came in on the morning of 31 March to Mike Presti, a Senior Program Manager on the Downstate New York Customer and Community Team. Before the coronavirus pandemic struck, his day job was looking after some of the region’s biggest gas customers; including all the colleges and universities on Long Island. That’s why he was the one who picked up the phone to the US Army Corp of Engineers.
 

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