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Hydrogen in Residential Heating and Power: A Merit-Order Assessment for the EU-27, Switzerland and the United Kingdom under Net-Zero by 2050

2026

Abstract

This research paper evaluates the role of green hydrogen in residential heating and power-system decarbonisation across the EU-27, the United Kingdom, and Switzerland between 2025 and 2050. Using a bottom-up reconstruction of residential heat demand, Monte Carlo uncertainty analysis, and least-cost optimisation, it assesses hydrogen through levelised-cost, merit-order dispatch, and investment-viability tests. The results show that heat pumps and district heating form the cost-optimal decarbonisation pathway, while hydrogen has only a limited role in direct heating but can provide value as a dispatchable low-carbon peaking resource, subject to appropriate capacity-remuneration mechanisms.

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2026

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https://infoscience.epfl.ch/entities/publication/54dd4f99-e8bc-44e3-a9c8-23b03dac0a30

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Central heating

A central heating system provides warmth to a number of spaces within a building from one main source of heat. It is a component of heating, ventilation, and air conditioning (short: HVAC) systems, which can both cool and warm interior spaces. A central heating system has a furnace that converts fuel or electricity to heat. The heat is circulated through the building either by fans forcing heated air through ducts, circulation of low-pressure steam to radiators in each heated room, or pumps that circulate hot water through room radiators.

District heating

District heating (also known as heat networks or teleheating) is a system for distributing heat generated in a centralized location through a system of insulated pipes for residential and commercial heating requirements such as space heating and water heating. The heat is often obtained from a cogeneration plant burning fossil fuels or biomass, but heat-only boiler stations, geothermal heating, heat pumps and central solar heating are also used, as well as heat waste from factories and nuclear power electricity generation.

Heat pump

A heat pump is a device that uses work to transfer heat from a cool space to a warm space by transferring thermal energy using a refrigeration cycle, cooling the cool space and warming the warm space. In cold weather a heat pump can move heat from the cool outdoors to warm a house; the pump may also be designed to move heat from the house to the warmer outdoors in warm weather. As they transfer heat rather than generating heat, they are more energy-efficient than other ways of heating a home.

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