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Pipe upgrade project set to slash methane footprint of Britain's gas network

Business Green

The major infrastructure project forms part of the Iron Mains Risk Replacement Programme, which is replacing the UK's old iron network with hydrogen- and biomethane-ready piping made from plastic. The current iron pipes carry methane-based natural gas. We need to decarbonise the gas that we use.

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Aiming high for hydrogen

Business Green

Those same gas network companies have already been helping to prepare their networks for a green gas revolution. Replacing old iron gas pipes with hydrogen and biomethane-ready plastic pipes is helping to cut carbon emissions and deliver the world's first zero-carbon gas grid.