Appraising different types of hydrogen appliance

Tender description

BEIS is holding a supplier day on Friday 21st April to provide prospective suppliers with the opportunity to gain more detail on a forthcoming project seeking to appraise different approaches to providing hydrogen appliances in UK homes, should there be a future transition from natural gas to hydrogen. Details of the supplier day and venue are below. On the 14th December 2016, Baroness Neville Rolfe gave a speech at the Policy Exchange's Heat Summit event: How Can We Decarbonise Heating? A link to this is below in section 5 of this notice. Converting the gas grid to hydrogen is one potential option for decarbonising part of the UK's heat demand. BEIS wishes to build on existing evidence relating to hydrogen appliances by commissioning a project to appraise the following three variations in approach to providing hydrogen appliances in UK homes, should there be a future transition from natural gas to hydrogen: a) Appliances fully replaced: Natural gas appliances removed and hydrogen appliances installed in their place. b) Appliances adapted: Natural gas appliances have components that can be easily switched-out to allow conversion to hydrogen. c) Dual fuel appliances: Appliances capable of burning both natural gas and hydrogen. For the purposes of this project, "appliances" will be defined as: domestic gas boilers, ovens, hobs and fires. The study should improve the evidence base on the cost, performance and practicality of each approach and the trade-offs between them. We anticipate this project will be between £40,000 to £60,000 (ex-VAT).