| | OCTOBER 20238IN MY OPINIONTHE JOURNEY TOWARDS A LOW-CARBON FUTUREHydrogen and its potential role in decarbonising home heating are being explored by the government and are cited in many documents including the Hydrogen Strategy, Energy White Paper, and Heat and Buildings Strategy.Here at Northern Gas Networks, we are extremely proud to be at the forefront of understanding how hydrogen can best be used to reduce our reliance on natural gas and, in parallel, what we need to do to create an efficient and resilient distribution infrastructure capable of meeting our needs long into the future.The launchpad for our work was the H21 Leeds City Gate report, which first established that conversion to hydrogen was technically possible and economically viable. Since that point, we, along with our partners from the gas distribution and transmission networks, have been focusing on the other elements that would be required to make a successful switch from natural gas.Chief among these is safety, and our teams have been engaged in a wide variety of trials and tests under the H21 banner to prove that hydrogen can be delivered and used as safely as natural gas.By Tim Harwood, Hydrogen Programme Director, Northern Gas NetworksTim Harwood
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