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HyDeploy: Hydrogen in the UK Gas Grid
HyDeploy: Hydrogen in the UK Gas Grid.
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[{"type":"text","content":"\n \nRNS Number : 4133G ITM Power PLC 06 November 2018 \n\n6 November 2018\n \nITM Power plc\n(\"ITM Power\", \"the Company\" or \"the Group\")\n \nHyDeploy: Hydrogen in the UK Gas Grid\n \nITM Power (AIM: ITM), the energy storage and clean fuel company, is pleased to provide an important update on the HyDeploy project, first announced on 30th November 2016. HyDeploy the £6.8 million project, funded by Ofgem and led by Cadent and Northern Gas Networks, is an energy trial to establish the potential for blending up to 20% hydrogen into the normal gas supply to reduce carbon dioxide emissions. HyDeploy will run a year-long live trial of blended gas on part of the University of Keele gas network to determine the level of hydrogen which could be used by gas consumers safely and with no changes to their behaviour or existing domestic appliances. ITM Power is supplying the electrolyser system.\n \nCommenting on the HyDeploy announcement, Graham Cooley, ITM Power's CEO, said: \"The significance of this announcement, allowing up to 20% green hydrogen to be injected into a UK gas network, is hard to overstate. Power-to-gas in the UK is under active consideration by all gas grid operators and its significance as an energy storage technique is growing globally. This announcement is an important advance.\"\n \nThe text of today's HyDeploy announcement is set out below.\n \nGreen light for leading-edge hydrogen trial\n \n· Ground-breaking hydrogen trial gets the green light\n· First of its type in the UK\n· Green hydrogen blended with natural gas to fuel homes at Keele University\n \nA ground-breaking green energy trial that could help Britain dramatically cut its carbon emissions and open the door to a low-carbon hydrogen economy has been given the go-ahead by the Health and Safety Executive (HSE).\n \nIn the first trial of its kind in the UK, the HyDeploy project will inject hydrogen into an existing natural gas network. Hydrogen is a carbon-free gas that when burned produces just heat and water and has been mooted as a potential solution to tackling one of the country's biggest sources of carbon emissions - heating homes and businesses.\n \nBacked by Ofgem's Network Innovation C...