Nearly every home in the UK is likely to need a heat pump by 2050 after the Energy Secretary effectively ruled out piping hydrogen into people’s houses 🔴 HugoGye reports
The Government has been investigating the possibility ofover the coming years to help reach net-zero carbon emissions.
But a planned trial this week was scrapped after local opposition and Grant Shapps has now said it is “unlikely” that hydrogen could be used to replace gas-powered boilers, pointing to the need to replace thousands of miles of pipes in a switchover. The minister’s admission suggests that heat pumps powered by electricity will end up being rolled out to nearly all homes in time for the 2050 net-zero deadline.
Mr Shapps told an event in Westminster: “I am a big believer in hydrogen as part of our energy mix in the future and I think Britain should have a very big role in it, we will make sure we do have this hydrogen economy. “What I think less now though, having spent a lot of time on this subject, is it is unlikely that hydrogen – there was a time when people thought, ‘Ah, you just have something which looks like a gas boiler and you feed hydrogen into it’ – the problem with that is hydrogen molecules are very small, you have to replace potentially quite a lot of piping, and of course you’ve got to produce the ‘green’ hydrogen to make the whole thing stack up, the kind of volumes which mean that the transition...
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