HyDeploy will help us to understand how hydrogen could help to reduce carbon emissions from heat in the UK.
A live trial would provide practical evidence of how a blend of hydrogen (up to 20%) works on a live gas network and for gas customers. The results could give the basis for a trial on a public network, and wider roll out. This would help to lower carbon emissions relatively quickly with limited disruption to customers, while wider decarbonisation projects are progressed.
If hydrogen were blended with natural gas across the UK at a similar level to HyDeploy, it could save around 6 million tonnes of carbon dioxide emissions every year, the equivalent of taking 2.5 million cars off the road.