Enabling a hydrogen future
Without HyDeploy the foundations for the hydrogen revolution – acknowledged by the Government as an essential part of our journey to Net Zero – could not have been laid. Rolling a hydrogen blend out nationally would not be possible without HyDeploy first demonstrating that it was viable, practical, and safe, and these results form the bedrock of this major turning point in our approach to energy use and sustainability. This will ultimately benefit consumers in the UK and around the world the most, by making their energy usage more environmentally sustainable, and boosting the economy through the creation of a new hydrogen industry and ecosystem.
Crucially, the trial has shown that hydrogen blending can be done safely and effectively, with no adverse effects for consumers using the gas, and has also enabled further trials in a public gas grid in the Northeast of England, with similarly positive results reported.
The HyDeploy consortium is now working to gather evidence on supplying industry with blended hydrogen. This data, underpinned by the findings from our trial and the further hydrogen blending trials made possible by our project, will complete the safety picture for the UK Government and allow them to approve hydrogen blending for the whole of the UK, confident in the knowledge that it is a safe and majorly beneficial step forward in the UK’s journey to net zero.
Hydrogen blending will play a critical role in unlocking the UK’s hydrogen economy by providing a substantial demand for low carbon hydrogen which will stimulate investment in the sector. HyDeploy has demonstrated the feasibility of blending hydrogen across the existing gas distribution network, to homes and businesses and to a wide range of industrial settings. It is time for policy to catch up with industry and sanction hydrogen blending to capitalise on this golden opportunity.
Chris Manson Whitton CEO of Progressive Energy
As the threat of climate change becomes ever more acute, solutions such as hydrogen fuelling and heating are needed more urgently than ever, and research into these technologies will take on an even greater significance as we look for new ways to reduce our impact on the environment and move towards more sustainable alternatives as a species. HyDeploy at Keele is the lynchpin around which revolves the implementation of hydrogen as a zero-carbon, sustainable fuel of the future, and moving towards a cleaner and more environmentally-friendly society, in the UK and around the world.
