In August 2021, the UK government published its Hydrogen Strategy and a number of consultations on policies to encourage the development of a UK low carbon hydrogen sector (see posts (1) to (4) in this series here). In a sector where countries are competing keenly to be among the first to capitalise significantly on the coming low carbon hydrogen revolution, momentum is crucial, and April 2022 saw the publication of a further batch of hydrogen policy documents, including the government’s responses to the earlier consultations. This is the third in a series of posts on the April 2022 documents (for other posts on these documents, see here).
One of the great unresolved questions of hydrogen policy concerns its potential role in space heating (either as a substitute for methane or blended in the gas grid). In this post, we look at the UK government’s response to its August 2021
UK hydrogen policy takes shape (7): Hydrogen for heat: facilitating a grid conversion hydrogen heating trial – government response published
