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What is Home Hydrogen?
With funding from Alberta Innovates and Natural Resources Canada (NRCan), Qualico and ATCO are working to harness the potential of hydrogen in residential heating.
Alberta has the capacity to convert natural gas into hydrogen, capture the emissions associated with that process, put those emissions back in the ground where the natural gas was extracted, and eliminate the emissions created by burning natural gas for heat.
How is Hydrogen Different?
From a homeowner’s perspective, the only difference between Home Hydrogen and natural gas is the appliance installed in their furnace room. Hydrogen heating is even safer than natural gas heating and just as reliable.
The big difference is that burning natural gas creates greenhouse gas emissions, and burning hydrogen only creates water. Hydrogen is the most reliable, affordable, and attainable path to lower carbon living in Alberta, and there is significant economic opportunity for Albertans in producing hydrogen and hydrogen-related technologies like home appliances.
Electricity can be a reliable heating source for much of the year, but electricity production in Alberta can be carbon intensive when heating demands are high. Electric heating becomes unreliable during the coldest months of winter when electric heating demands far surpass Alberta’s electrical grid’s capacity. Hydrogen production coupled with carbon capture (CCS) offers an almost zero- emission heating fuel without compromising reliability or safety.”
