The UK is on an important journey to make heating more environmentally-friendly.

Bringing low-carbon hydrogen to heat homes and businesses is the next exciting milestone.

In 2025, the first UK village will swap from natural gas to hydrogen. This exciting programme will demonstrate how the rest of the UK can become more environmentally-friendly when it comes to heating and cooking with gas.

What's a Hydrogen Village?

Heating homes. Boiling water. Cooking food. It all needs energy. It’s time to make that energy cleaner – and it starts with a village.

Most UK homes and businesses rely on natural gas, a fossil fuel, for heating and cooking. This accounts for about 23% of the UK’s carbon dioxide emissions.

Moving to low-carbon hydrogen gas for heating and cooking, is one of the ways to help solve this issue.

Hydrogen gas can be produced in the UK, and projects have already shown how it can be used for heating and cooking. To demonstrate this more widely it now needs to be rolled out further.

That’s why the Government has announced a target for a village-sized gas grid to be converted to hydrogen, by 2025

Whitby, Ellesmere Port

Situated within Ellesmere Port – an area recognised for its strong manufacturing, industrial and scientific history – an area in Whitby has been identified as an ideal place where a Hydrogen Village could be based.

Why hydrogen?

Hydrogen offers a low-hassle way for homeowners, tenants and businesses to switch to a greener lifestyle.

Only limited changes are needed to gas pipes and homes, for hydrogen to be used for heating, hot water and cooking.

In fact, using hydrogen in the gas network isn’t a totally new concept; hydrogen used to run through the nation’s pipes as part of town gas, before the 1960s.

There’s a couple of ways hydrogen can be made available for the cleaner version of the fuel we’d need today. Projects are already getting started to create hydrogen, in ways that keep carbon dioxide emissions to a minimum.

If you live in the Hydrogen Village area, please get in touch to check if you are eligible for an in home assessment and FREE British Gas service.

Get in touch on 0800 035 3371 or enquiries@hydrogenvillage.com