62. Hydrogen implications for gas network operators

In the episode, Jon Slowe is joined by Eva Hennig, Head of EU Energy Policy at Thüga and chair of Eurogas’s distribution committee, and Keith Owen, Head of Systems Development and Energy Strategy at Northern Gas Networks, to explore how Europe built one of the world’s strongest gas distribution infrastructures. The challenge is that this network carries natural gas, a fuel we must rapidly move away from to meet net zero goals.

The conversation examines whether the existing system could instead transport clean hydrogen, either through blending as an interim step or by shifting to pure hydrogen in the future, setting aside the debate over whether we should pursue this path and focusing instead on whether we can and what it would take to make it possible.

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