- The new UK energy secretary Jacob Rees-Mogg envisions the use of hydrogen in heating homes, something energy experts and scientists strongly advise against.
- The energy secretary subsequently laid out his plans to produce hydrogen “from renewable sources” to use it “as an effective battery” to be “piped through to people’s houses to heat them during the winter”.
- David Cebon, professor at Cambridge University and co-founder of the Hydrogen Science Coalition, noted that “hydrogen is not a solution for decarbonising home heating”.
Hydrogen heating: UK government at odds with scientists
