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The £25m Hy4Heat innovation programme has been commissioned by BEIS (BEIS) to determine whether it is technically possible, safe, and convenient to replace natural gas (methane) with hydrogen in residential and commercial buildings and gas appliances. This will enable the government to determine whether to proceed to a community trial. The study is part of the UK government's Clean Growth Strategy which outlines a range of low carbon heating technologies with the potential to support heat decarbonisation. At present it is not clear which of these options will work best at scale.

Hy4Heat is comprised of several interrelated work packages:


 * 1: programme and technical management
 * 2: hydrogen quality standards
 * IGEM, the Institution of Gas Engineers & Managers, is reviewing the relevant standards for hydrogen
 * Purity and colourant are being considered by DNV GL in a separate stream of work
 * 3: appliance certification
 * Hydrogen appliances to be certified under GAR (Gas Appliance Regulation).
 * 4: domestic hydrogen appliances
 * The aim is to develop prototype gas appliances which can demonstrate the safe use of hydrogen as a fuel in providing domestic heating, hot water and cooking requirements
 * 5: commercial appliances
 * 6: industrial appliances
 * 7: safety assessment
 * 8: demonstration trials
 * 9: community trial preparation
 * 10: hydrogen smart meters

The programme management team

BEIS has appointed Arup+ as the named programme manager for Hy4Heat. Arup works with technical and industry specialists: Kiwa Gastec, Progressive Energy, Embers and Yo Energy. The Hy4Heat team oversees the programme and technical management of the entire programme (work package 1). It will also be undertaking the work to prepare and plan for a community trial (work package 9), if BEIS decides to do this. BEIS will appoint contractors to deliver the other work packages that together make up the programme and the Hy4Heat team will oversee and manage all of these as part of its main programme management role.

Recent events

Hy4Heat presented at COP24 in November 2018 as part of the BEIS