Hydrogen has the potential to play a key role in decarbonising heat in buildings, but there is still significant uncertainty about whether it is the best route for the UK to follow, the government said today.

In its long-awaited hydrogen strategy it said it was pushing ahead on a research programme to look at the costs, benefits, safety, feasibility, air quality impacts and consumer experience of using low-carbon hydrogen for heating compared to other more established heat decarbonisation technologies such as heat pumps.

This includes supporting industry to conduct first-of-a-kind hydrogen heating trials, including a neighbourhood trial in Levenmouth, Fife, by 2023 and a village scale trial by 2025.

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