Guidance to Gas Distribution Network (GDN) operators on funding to support the preparation of outline plans for a potential pilot hydrogen heated town.
23 January 2023: closed to applications
The application window is closed. We will publish information on the outcome of the application process here.
The government believes that low carbon hydrogen may have the potential to offer a strategic option for decarbonising heat in buildings, alongside other options. As set out in the Heat and Buildings Strategy, the government intends to make policy decisions in 2026 on what role, if any, hydrogen should play in decarbonising heating.
Applications received
BEIS has received applications from each of the 4 Gas Distribution Networks (GDNs) for funding to develop outline plans for how a roll-out of hydrogen heating might take place in each of their network areas. BEIS is currently reviewing the applications and will announce which it will fund in due course.
The purpose of developing outline plans at this stage is to provide further information on the practicalities of rolling out hydrogen heating, identifying the main energy system and supply chain requirements involved in deployment of hydrogen for heating in different areas of the network.
These plans, alongside our support for industry to deliver a 100% hydrogen heating neighbourhood trial, and then a village trial by 2025, will help inform policy decisions and, potentially, future implementation plans.
This work will also contribute to development of plans for a possible pilot hydrogen heated town by 2030, one of the milestones in the government's Ten Point Plan for a Green Industrial Revolution for a Green Industrial Revolution.
