Wales and West Utilities (WWU) has received approval from the Health and Safety Executive (HSE) to inject gas containing up to 1 per cent hydrogen into the gas grid.
The gas will be produced at Advanced Biofuel Solutions’ waste gasification plant in Swindon where it will also be injected into the network starting in October.
Sarah Williams, director of regulation and asset strategy at WWU, said: “This will help reduce the carbon emissions from local homes today without any impact on our customers or their appliances. This is another important step in demonstrating the use of the existing safe and reliable gas network in the UK to transport hydrogen.
“The 2020s must be a decade of delivery, where we put the research and development work that has been done on hydrogen into practice. This project will help support ambitious plans across the UK to convert villages to hydrogen, help heavy industry decarbonise, and meet government’s aspirations on hydrogen for home heating.”
Nathan Burkey, executive chairman of Advanced Biofuel Solutions, said: “Our RadGas process operates at its highest efficiency when producing hydrogen and we are pleased to work with Wales and West Utilities to help develop the use of hydrogen in heating.”