{"id":117653,"date":"2023-10-11T09:10:32","date_gmt":"2023-10-11T06:10:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/news\/uk-government-urged-to-rule-out-hydrogen-heating-especially-in-rural-communities\/"},"modified":"2023-10-11T09:10:32","modified_gmt":"2023-10-11T06:10:32","slug":"uk-government-urged-to-rule-out-hydrogen-heating-especially-in-rural-communities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/news\/uk-government-urged-to-rule-out-hydrogen-heating-especially-in-rural-communities\/","title":{"rendered":"UK Government urged to rule out hydrogen heating, especially in rural communities"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mp_wrapper\">\n  <div class=\"mepr-unauthorized-message\">\n    <p>You are unauthorized to view this page.<\/p>\n  <\/div>\n  <div class=\"mepr-login-form-wrap\">\n            \n<div class=\"mp_wrapper mp_login_form\">\n                  <!-- mp-login-form-start -->     <form name=\"mepr_loginform\" id=\"mepr_loginform\" class=\"mepr-form\" action=\"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/login-2\/\" method=\"post\">\n            <div class=\"mp-form-row mepr_username\">\n        <div class=\"mp-form-label\">\n                              <label for=\"user_login\">Username<\/label>\n        <\/div>\n        <input type=\"text\" name=\"log\" id=\"user_login\" value=\"\" \/>\n      <\/div>\n      <div class=\"mp-form-row mepr_password\">\n        <div class=\"mp-form-label\">\n          <label for=\"user_pass\">Password<\/label>\n          <div class=\"mp-hide-pw\">\n            <input type=\"password\" name=\"pwd\" id=\"user_pass\" value=\"\" \/>\n            <button type=\"button\" class=\"button mp-hide-pw hide-if-no-js\" data-toggle=\"0\" aria-label=\"Show password\">\n              <span class=\"dashicons dashicons-visibility\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><\/span>\n            <\/button>\n          <\/div>\n        <\/div>\n      <\/div>\n            <div>\n        <label><input name=\"rememberme\" type=\"checkbox\" id=\"rememberme\" value=\"forever\" \/> Remember Me<\/label>\n      <\/div>\n      <div class=\"mp-spacer\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n      <div class=\"submit\">\n        <input type=\"submit\" name=\"wp-submit\" id=\"wp-submit\" class=\"button-primary mepr-share-button \" value=\"Log In\" \/>\n        <input type=\"hidden\" name=\"redirect_to\" value=\"\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117653\" \/>\n        <input type=\"hidden\" name=\"mepr_process_login_form\" value=\"true\" \/>\n        <input type=\"hidden\" name=\"mepr_is_login_page\" value=\"false\" \/>\n      <\/div>\n    <\/form>\n    <div class=\"mp-spacer\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n    <div class=\"mepr-login-actions\">\n        <a\n          href=\"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/login-2\/?action=forgot_password\"\n          title=\"Click here to reset your password\"\n        >\n          Forgot Password        <\/a>\n    <\/div>\n\n      \n    <!-- mp-login-form-end --> \n  <\/div>\n      <\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"smart_content_wrapper\">\nThe government has been urged to rule out hydrogen heating in rural areas as well as technology mixes that require extensive upgrades to both electricity and gas networks. In a new report, Citizens Advice said decisions on the future of heating should be made on an area-by-area basis, taking into account local network costs. The consumer advocate commissioned LCP Delta to explore the costs of upgrading electricity and gas networks in four possible scenarios for heating across 12 different location archetypes in England, Scotland and Wales. In each instance, the costs were estimated for 5,000 domestic properties.<\/p>\n<p>In the first scenario, domestic heating would be fully electrified with air-source heat pumps, and in the second, all homes connected to the gas grid would rely solely on a hydrogen boiler. In the third, all homes connected to the gas grid would use a hybrid heating system combining a hydrogen boiler and a heat pump, and in the fourth, there would be an unspecified mix of all these technologies. The base case of the last scenario assumes that electricity network reinforcement costs would be 50% of those in the first scenario. It also assumes that gas distribution and transmission network reinforcement costs would be 100% and 50% of those in the second scenario respectively.<\/p>\n<p>LCP Delta found that electrification would be the cheapest option for all but two of the archetypes, the exceptions being urban housing in London and the North West of England. It found electrification would be the cheapest option for all 12 of the location archetypes when also adding in costs for hydrogen storage. Citizens Advice said electrification was \u201coverwhelmingly\u201d cheaper in the four rural archetypes. It said the savings when compared to next-lowest cost option ranged from 84% in the North of Scotland to 54% in the South East of England.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThese rural areas have a number of things in common, though to different degrees: relatively higher rates of already electrified heating, less gas distribution network and longer lengths of gas distribution pipeline,\u201d the report explained. \u201cThey therefore have the highest costs for supporting hydrogen for heat while also the lowest costs for electricity upgrades due to the lower cost of overhead network infrastructure in rural areas.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The analysis also found that electrification would be the cheapest option in all three of the industrial archetypes. Citizens Advice said this is \u201cparticularly notable\u201d given their \u201cclose proximity\u201d to existing and future production sites for hydrogen and renewable electricity: \u201cThe findings indicate that for the hydrogen scenarios, being close to industrial clusters is not a key influence and that gas distribution network costs, as in other areas, remain the most important factor to cost.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In general, Citizens Advice said the electricity network upgrade costs in the first scenario do not vary significantly between location archetypes, whilst there is significant variation between archetypes in the other scenarios. It said the differences in network upgrade costs between second (hydrogen boilers) and third (hybrid heating) scenarios are \u201cgenerally small\u201d for each archetype.<\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.edie.net\/uk-government-urged-to-rule-out-hydrogen-heating-especially-in-rural-communities\/\">Read more&gt;&gt;<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source: <a rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.edie.net\/uk-government-urged-to-rule-out-hydrogen-heating-especially-in-rural-communities\/\">edie.net<\/a> <\/div>\n<p>The post <a rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/vastuullisuusuutiset.fi\/fi\/vaufien\/uk-government-urged-to-rule-out-hydrogen-heating-especially-in-rural-communities\/\">UK Government urged to rule out hydrogen heating, especially in rural communities<\/a> appeared first on <a rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/vastuullisuusuutiset.fi\/fi\">Vastuullisuusuutiset.fi<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[393,1683,623,4126,579,606,607,608],"class_list":["post-117653","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-community","tag-heating","tag-hydrogen","tag-rural","tag-uk","tag-vau_viikkokatsaus","tag-vauen","tag-vaufien"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117653","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=117653"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117653\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=117653"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=117653"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=117653"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}