Energy Minister: Hydrogen will have 'very small role, if at all' in heating UK homes

Michael Holder
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Energy Minister: Hydrogen will have 'very small role, if at all' in heating UK homes

EXCLUSIVE: Lord Callanan touts heat pumps and heat networks as replacement for vast majority of fossil gas boilers as he warns that hydrogen remains 'very problematical' for home heating

Hydrogen will have only "a very small role, if at all" in heating UK homes, with heat pumps and heat networks primed to dominate the transition away from fossil gas boilers in domestic properties over...

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