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Hydrogen for home heating is a dead end solution.

04.10.2023 - By The Massachusetts Climate Action NetworkPlay

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Massachusetts’ natural gas distribution companies (Eversource and National Grid) want to add hydrogen to your home heating gas supply. A new report makes plain this is a bad idea. Using our state’s shiny new wind turbines to produce enough green hydrogen to allow us to put that H2 gas into the utilities’ pipelines and then burn it to heat our homes is “a dead-end climate solution that will fail to meet our state mandated emissions reduction goals at huge costs to ratepayers.”  Listen to the report’s authors discuss the issue.

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