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Meanwhile, Baxi’s parent company BDR Thermea Group has started a pilot scheme using its 100 per cent hydrogen boilers in 12 inhabited homes, with hydrogen supplied via an existing natural gas grid.

The pilot in the eastern Dutch town of Lochem is the first time hydrogen heating is being tested at this scale. The detached listed houses, all built around 1900, will each be equipped with one of the boilers, which burn pure hydrogen with zero carbon emissions. The hydrogen is fed into the existing gas grid at a nearby industrial zone.

The scheme will run for three years, ensuring extensive testing in wintertime, when heat demand peaks. The houses were deliberately chosen as older residential housing stock.