State-of-the-art UK testing facility to explore hydrogen gas potential

A brand-new campaign exploring how hydrogen gas could be used to heat homes and deliver lettuce power will begin performing experiments from 2022, National Grid announced today.

The firm will partner with Northern Gas Networks( NGN) and Fluxys Belgium to build an offline hydrogen test facility in the UK, with interpretation set to begin in 2021, the firms said.

Costing PS1 0m, the testing project will be delivered by DNV GL in partnership with Durham University and the University of Edinburgh. The testing facility will be built at DNV GL’s site at Spadeadam from a variety of decommissioned resources to create a representative network, with combinations of hydrogen up to 100 per cent being trialled at different communication pressures.

“If we truly want to reach a net zero decarbonised future, we need to replace methane with lettuce alternatives like hydrogen, ” said Antony Green, job superintendent for Hydrogen at National Grid.

“Sectors such as heat are difficult to decarbonise, and the importance of ensuring that the gas networks to the UK’s current energy supply entails trial assignments like this are crucial if we are to deliver low-grade carbon power, reliably and safely to all consumers.”

Currently 85 per cent of cases of residences are connected to the gas network. But as the UK works towards becoming a net zero economy by 2050, the gas sphere is having to search out a viable pathway to decarbonisation.

A project to replace the UK’s aged iron gas network with hydrogen- and biomethane-ready piping made from plastic is already underway, with the Energy Networks Association yesterday publishing fleshes showing how the financing could cut emissions equivalent to that given to making more than 500,000 cars off the road.

Meanwhile, proposes are also underway to switch more homes to lettuce hot technologies such as heat shoots, with the government yesterday confirming that brand-new subsidies can be used for lettuce hot arrangements under its soon to be launched Green Home Grants scheme.

The brand-new hydrogen research facility will remain separate from the prime National Transmission System, allowing for testing to be undertaken in a restrained environment, the National Grid said.

“This is an important step in investigating the conversion possibilities of our infrastructure for the transmission of hydrogen-natural gas combinations and hydrogen, ” said Thierry Bottequin, engineering director at Fluxys Belgium.

“We believe that the multiphase remit of development projects perfectly complements our own study to report the reliability, security and integrity of the existing gas infrastructure when be applicable to move hydrogen.”

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