Padua, September 10, 2019 – SIT,

through its subsidiary Metersit, operating in the Smart Gas Metering sector, has been selected by the UK Department for Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy (BEIS) as part of an international tender process to develop a hydrogen meter for the national Hy4Heat project.
Hy4Heat is a UK government program aimed at defining the technical feasibility, safety conditions, and convenience of replacing methane gas with hydrogen in both commercial and residential applications. The Hy4Heat program is part of the national heating decarbonization plan, one of the United Kingdom’s major climate control challenges aimed at reducing CO2 emissions into the atmosphere, for which the use of hydrogen constitutes one of the strategic options.
The Hy4Heat program covers the entire hydrogen supply chain for heating purposes in both domestic and commercial environments. SIT has been assigned a significant role within the Smart Metering sector, where its technology can play a key role.
The objective of the work package assigned to SIT is to develop a prototype meter that ensures the safety and accuracy of hydrogen flow measurement. The prototype must be compatible with industry regulations (MID/Ofgem) and country-specific requirements (SMETS 2), while also taking into account the unique characteristics of hydrogen in terms of higher risk and lower calorific value per unit of volume. From this perspective, SIT’s distinctive thermo-mass technology can allow for a reduction in the size of the meter, another of the specific requirements of the tender.
The Hy4Heat program anticipates the delivery of the prototype by the first quarter of 2021.

This result is a further step in an evolutionary path that confirms SIT’s role as a leader in innovation within the sector at an international level.