At the beginning of the first UK Hydrogen Week, Baxi has called for the industry to respond to the government’s pivotal improving boiler standards and efficiency consultation.
The consultation covers a range of topics around natural gas boiler installations, heating controls, the potential role for hybrid heat pumps in the future and a proposal for mandating ‘hydrogen-ready’ boilers from 2026.
For residential applications, Baxi has supplied it’s hydrogen boilers and 20% blend compatible to projects such as HyDeploy, Hy4Heat, HyStreet, Northern Gas Network’s 100% Hydrogen Home near Gateshead and the H100 Fife project of 300 homes in Scotland.
Baxi has also partnered with H2Go Power to deliver a commercial hydrogen boiler and demonstrate the technology’s potential to decarbonise multiple industries.
Jeff House, external affairs and policy director at Baxi UK and Ireland, said: “We are thrilled to see the UK’s first UK Hydrogen Week take place, highlighting the sheer scale of research and development taking place to explore the viability of the fuel as part of a practical route to net zero for our industry. Baxi’s commitment to developing hydrogen appliances as low carbon alternatives to natural gas is a key part of our wider strategy of lowering emissions from heating and hot water provision.
“We hope initiatives like Hydrogen Week will increase the support and urgency at which we push hydrogen as one of the key pillars of decarbonisation, in addition to guiding policy in the area.
“Whatever the rules and regulations put in place by the government, the industry is moving towards a low carbon future, with heat pumps, hybrid systems, heat networks and hydrogen all set to play their part in this effort. To ensure we achieve this goal, it is vital that we take a pragmatic approach informed by the perspectives of that heating professionals who live and breathe our industry.
“We’d urge everyone involved in the heating industry to provide feedback on the consultation to ensure the policies it will ultimately result in are suitable and achievable.”