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HYDROGEN
BLENDING
WHAT IS IT AND WHY DOES IT MATTER?
The government should set a target
for when the first large-scale hydrogen
production plants will be connected
to Britain’s gas grid, says a new report T quantities of hydrogen into its
commissioned by gas distribution company
Cadent and published by Energy Network Association’s
(ENA) Gas Goes Green programme. Dr Angie Needle,
Director of Strategy at Cadent, explains why this report’s
recommendations could help kickstart the growth of a
world-leading hydrogen economy here in the UK
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he latest Frontier Economics
report, commissioned by Cadent,
sets out what Britain needs to
do to start introducing large
network of 284,000km of gas pipelines.
That’s important because it’s exactly
what we need to do to get going with
the process of replacing the carbon-
emitting ‘natural’ or fossil gas that most
of us use at the moment. The report
sets out the detail of what can be done
and what needs to be done for three key
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