
Octopus Energy, Gas Prices and The Grid with CEO, Greg Jackson
The Fully Charged Podcast
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Hydrogen or Electricity?
We're currently spending £22 billion renewing the gas main throughout the country. So how do we lead the move away from gas so we can heat our homes without it? Hydrogen or electricity. And there are two ways of making hydrogen, really. Green hydrogen and blue hydrogen. Blue hydrogen takes natural gas methane, you do a load of processes to it. You've also got some hydrogen - but no one's done that yet. This isn't a likely replacement. It's going to cost more than gas. The other thing is if you put hydrogen to people's houses, even upgrade the networks, you've then got to look at what's going on in the house. Every valve
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