Exploring Diverse Paths for Carbon Reduction in LIDP Initiative
A key project in 2024/25 will be the delivery of The Solent Cluster Local Industrial Decarbonisation Plan (LIDP). The Solent Cluster has been awarded £749,882 to contribute to a total project cost of £1,005,143. The project will be delivered between February 2024 and February 2025.
The Solent Cluster LIDP contains an innovative and diverse group of project partners that focus on manufacturing, rather than heavy industry. These emitters will have access to CO2 transport and storage infrastructure and low carbon hydrogen production being developed in the Solent.
The project comprises five main work packages:
- Identifying the current emissions and energy/ fuel demands of each site, to understand the evolution of emissions under the business-as-usual case.
- Conducting feasibility studies for decarbonisation, modelling decarbonisation scenarios and options and assessing the costs/benefits of each scenario under different drivers by creating digital AI twins for each decarbonisation option.
- Understanding key market, policy and regulatory opportunities and challenges to different decarbonisation technologies as well as social acceptance issues on decarbonisation of the Solent.
- Quantifying economic benefits linked to industrial decarbonisation (jobs and GVA) and understanding opportunities for investment and economic growth (e.g., trade of clean commodities, low carbon energy technologies).
- Engagement and dissemination activities and plans for further engagement.
- Work will also progress on the development of the six anchor projects by their project leads.

The Solent LIDP roadmap brochure
The Solent Local Industrial Decarbonisation Plan (LIDP) Transitioning Pathways report explores routes for decarbonising the Solent region.
Funded through a successful bid to the Government’s Local Industrial Decarbonisation Plan competition, run in partnership with Innovate UK (IUK), and complemented with funding from the project partners, the publication of the report marks the culmination of over a year’s collaboration between industry and academia.
The project explored key barriers and opportunities, modelled business actions, and examined public perceptions surrounding industrial decarbonisation resulting in options for future industrial decarbonisation in the area.
Supporting documentation:
Blunomy
SSE
Veolia
Standard Aero
GEO Specialty Chemicals
Uni of Southampton
Uni of Southampton
ERM

Meet the Local Industrial Decarbonisation Project team
As part of the LIDP work, project partner Ada Mode are currently surveying industrial businesses to better understand the current industrial energy landscape and the appetite for the adoption of low carbon energy and technology in the future.
We are asking industrial businesses across the region to contribute to the survey. Your response will be used to form a better understanding of the appetite for the adoption of low carbon technology, the future of industrial growth and energy demand in the region.