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05 Oct 20221 minute read

Report: Hydrogen not a “silver bullet” for heating homes

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Report: Hydrogen not a “silver bullet” for heating homes

A new report published by the journal Joule suggests that hydrogen may not be the ‘silver bullet’ solution for heating homes and cutting greenhouse gases it has been claimed to be by the Business Secretary last week.

Business Secretary Jacob Rees Mogg MP said in the Commons last week that hydrogen could be used as a way to store renewable energy and “piped through to people’s houses to heat them during the winter.”

The Joule report analysed more than 30 studies that looked at hydrogen and heating. All of them found that hydrogen was much less efficient and more costly than alternatives like heat pumps, which are readily available.

Speaking to the BBC, Jan Rosenow, the report's author and Europe Director at the energy think-tank the Regulatory Assistance Project, said, “Using hydrogen for heating may sound attractive at first glance.

“However, all of the independent research on this topic comes to the same conclusion: heating with hydrogen is a lot less efficient and more expensive than alternatives such as heat pumps, district heating and solar thermal.”

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