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Graham Parkes appointed Commercial Director for Navien UK
Key appointment supports ambitious growth plans.
Hydrogen
Product
Navien UK unveils its first 100% hydrogen boiler
Designed to burn 100% hydrogen, the new boiler is ready for the arrival of the supporting infrastructure.
News
Hydrogen found to be unsuitable for home heating
A report into Hydrogen as an alternative to natural gas has revealed that energy costs could spiral by up to 70% for consumers making it unsuitable for use in home heating.
News
World-leading ammonia-to-hydrogen project secures Government funds
£6.7m Government funding has been secured for the world-leading Tyseley Ammonia to Green Hydrogen Project.
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Opinion
Baxi: ‘Hydrogen for home heating needs swifter action’
Speaking at the Hydrogen Transition Summit in Glasgow, on the fringe of COP26, managing director of Baxi, Karen Boswell OBE, said more ambition needs to be shown to ensure hydrogen is able to take the place of natural gas in UK homes.
News
Midlands’ recovery plans to decarbonise and build green jobs
The Energy Research Accelerator (ERA) says 4,400 new green jobs and a focus on decarbonisation are at the heart of ambitious plans to rebuild the Midlands following the pandemic.
Opinion
Small-scale energy storage will be big business
Shane Crump, E&I engineering manager, and Peter Benyon, market leader, at GHD - one of the world’s leading professional services firms
News
Energy storage firm targets business growth
Energy pioneer Juliet Davenport OBE has joined energy storage business Gravitricity as an advisor to the board
News
Viessmann develops innovative pure hydrogen wall-mounted boiler
Viessmann will roll out first 100% H2-ready boiler programme installation in early 2023 in Kaisersech, Germany.
News
More trials follow success of first UK hydrogen blend project
HyDeploy, the first project in the UK to blend hydrogen into a natural gas network, was hailed a success after customers used hydrogen blended gas safely in their homes for heat and energy without the need to make any changes to their existing appliances.
Further Reading
News
Hydrogen-fired glass is a world first
In the trials, at Pilkington UK’s St Helens facility, the hydrogen completely replaces the natural gas fossil fuel normally used in the manufacturing process, significantly cutting carbon emissions.
News
Baxi’s hydrogen boiler demonstration
Two homes in Low Thornley, near Gateshead will show the use of hydrogen-fuelled appliances in a real-world setting and today Baxi invited housing providers and colleagues to see its boiler in action.
Opinion
New report highlights Scotland’s strengths in clean hydrogen
Scottish Enterprise has launched an in-depth report that sets out Scotland’s strengths as a world-leading producer and exporter of clean hydrogen in the next decade due to its unique geography, infrastructure and energy expertise.
News
Leading manufacturers join forces to deliver hydrogen boiler price promise
The ‘big four’ – Baxi, Ideal Boilers, Vaillant, and Worcester Bosch – have united for the first time in a joint initiative to ensure that the price of a new hydrogen-ready boiler won’t exceed that of existing natural gas models. The price promise is designed to help consumers reduce carbon emissions from home heating and hot water and assist with delivering net zero commitments by alleviating cost fears.
News
Government disagreements delay heating strategy
The strategy, originally expected to be released next week, will set out how Britain will decarbonise central heating systems in homes and offices which, combined, make up a third of emissions in the UK.
News
Sewage plants to heat homes?
Warmth may also be taken out of rivers, the sea, and old coalmines using heat pumps whilst heat from industries and incineration could be captured and piped to homes, hospitals, schools and offices.
Opinion
If not heat pumps or hydrogen – then what?
We have recently shared a poll on LinkedIn to see what you think the alternative to gas boilers will be, in response to the IEA’s report stating that gas boilers should not be sold from 2025. Here, Martyn Bridges, director of technical communication and product management at Worcester Bosch explores alternative technologies to hydrogen and heat pumps which can contribute to net zero 2050.
News
Baxi Heating takes home innovation award
The award, from the Innovation category was awarded for the Lancashire-based company’s hydrogen boiler, which was developed as part of its commitment to move away from traditional nature gas fired boilers in order to be a cleaner, greener manufacturing business.
News
Heat pumps or hydrogen? The gas boiler replacement
This ban comes as one of 400 steps on the road to net zero, as proposed in a special report by the agency. The report has been welcomed as an important contribution on the road to COP26 in Glasgow, when countries will attempt to agree the measures needed to put the Paris climate agreement into practice.
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No tick-box-training from National Gas Centre for Excellence
The National Gas Centre for Excellence (NGCFE) has opened the doors of its 6,000 sq. ft state-of-the-art centre in Featherstone, West Yorkshire to tackle the national shortage in qualified heating engineers with high-quality training focused on the needs of the installers and engineers.
News
Northern Gas Networks, BEIS and Cadent to build hydrogen houses
The UK’s first houses to demonstrate the use of hydrogen-fuelled appliances in a real-world setting are to be built by Northern Gas Networks (NGN), the company has announced.
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Route to cleaner greener gas
Northern Gas Networks (NGN) has completed the project as part of H21, in collaboration with fellow gas distribution networks Cadent, Scottish Gas Networks and Wales & West Utilities. It builds on the earlier H21 Leeds City Gate project, which established a hydrogen conversion of the gas grid was technically possible and economically viable.
Opinion
District heat networks – the overlooked urban solution?
While hydrogen certainly offers great potential, it’s often overlooked that it is untested technology at present and, meanwhile, the clock is ticking.
Opinion
No hope for heat pumps? Gas Users Organisation backs hydrogen
The Gas Users Organisation has branded the government’s commitment to move from gas to heat pumps as ‘premature’ and ‘prohibitively expensive’. This comes on the back of the recent Future Homes Standard consultation, in which the government outlined a heat pump orientated future: “A low carbon heating system will be integral to the specification of the Future Homes Standard and we anticipate that heat pumps will become the primary technology for new homes.”