KINETIC7, founded by Australian entrepreneur and philanthropist Rick Parish, announced the development of a cheap-and-clean energy platform and delivery solution. The company claims that its hydrogen-on-demand system could cut UK household energy bills by 30%-45%.
British Prime Minister Keir Starmer recently announced emergency support measures for UK households. The £57M package targeted ‘off-grid’ households not covered by the energy fuel cap and not served by legacy mains gas utility companies. Over 4 million UK households currently using LPG and oil have seen heating costs rise by 80% in one week.
Rapidly increasing costs and scarcity of supply have been impacted by geopolitical issues with Russia and Ukraine, and the current war between the US, Israel, and Iran. Kinetic7, the Abu Dhabi-based company with offices in the UK, Australia, Italy, and the US, pioneered a multi-patented delivery mechanism and several portable delivery platforms harnessing the production and delivery of hydrogen gas on demand (HOD). Their innovations dispense with dangerous and expensive hydrogen gas capture and storage.
The Kinetic7 technology produces hydrogen (HHO) gas on demand as and when needed with zero emissions, making it safe, clean, affordable, and accessible. The technology was conceived as a humanitarian portable cooking stove for developing nations. Kinetic7 designed and produced the Tribe™️ and Nomad™️ stoves, which are in the commercialisation phase, launching in Q3 of 2026. Both portable cooking stoves run off battery and solar power. The technology meets 13 of the 17 United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDG). A much larger hydrogen-on-demand HODbox™ was designed and created for the commercial catering and restaurant sectors, and one was created for the domestic energy market. Further prototype pivots are progressing for industrial and business sectors.
The residential HODbox™ produces carbon-free hydrogen gas for cooking, hot water, and heating delivered from an adaptable ‘plug and play’ unit attached to the side of a residential property. The Kinetic7 HODbox™ produces clean gas at a fraction of the price delivered by legacy mains gas suppliers, without costly upstream infrastructure and extensive utility pipe networks and connections. It works on the same principle as existing LPG and oil tanks connected to existing residential properties.
Commenting on the breakthrough, Chairman and founder of Kinetic7, Rick Parish, said:
“The current energy crisis has highlighted once again how vulnerable UK and European energy supplies are and the steps that need to be taken to ensure long-term energy security is preserved at all costs. We have become far too reliant on legacy gas providers who control the supply and price of energy. The cost of energy has also risen steeply over the last few years amidst market volatility and geopolitical instability. Hydrogen on demand is the future for safe, clean, and affordable energy that can be rolled out at speed. Hydrogen gas has existed since the very start of evolution, but understanding how we can create, capture, and store hydrogen gas safely has eluded even the greatest of minds. When we were innovating Kinetic7, we asked ourselves what if we didn’t need to store hydrogen gas but instead could create it on demand. Today, we have managed to harness the method of creating, producing, and delivering hydrogen gas safely, on demand, without the need for storage. This circumnavigates the costly process of storing hydrogen gas and means that our Kinetic7 gas is 100% safe and can be created as and when it is needed, and most importantly, its 100% carbon free.”
Kinetic 7 provides a viable alternative to the business and domestic energy markets. It will also provide a 100% carbon-free alternative energy source to the off-grid residential market. The residential HODbox™ attaches to the side of a property and is then plumbed into the house interior. After an initial outlay for the Kinetic 7 unit, the only other running costs to produce hydrogen gas on demand are a minimal water supply and a small amount of electricity or solar needed to power the unit and its auxiliary battery.
Rick Parish added:
“The crisis in the UK and European domestic energy market continues to impact households and squeezing incomes. Kinetic7 can be delivered safely to the domestic energy markets. Householders and house builders developing new homes will have a real alternative energy source that is 100% carbon free and that can simply bolt onto the side of a house at very minimal cost and disruption. Kinetic7 will provide ultra clean and ultra cheap gas for cooking and heating a boiler for ambient heat and hot water. We expect to make further announcements on this exciting phase over the coming months.”
The UK government is piloting residential trials using hydrogen gas. Hydrogen gas has historically been unsafe and unstable due to its low flash point, making it volatile under storage. Hydrogen gas is to be created, captured, and stored in costly, large storage facilities. It requires expensive infrastructure.
The Kinetic7 HODbox™ dispenses with the need to store hydrogen gas. It provides a safe and reliable clean energy source without storage, produced on demand. It has minimal cost outlay. The technology was recently demonstrated at the Palace of Westminster, using the prototype Kinetic7 Nomad™️ stove, to an audience of peers, dignitaries, and members of the House of Lords at the invitation of The Baroness Uddin, a sitting member of the House of Lords.
Rick Parish concluded:
“We are genuinely excited about the future and the huge impact that Kinetic7 can bring not just to the UK but to both developing and developed nations. It’s the first major step in producing clean and cheap energy that is carbon free anywhere in the world using one of our portable cook stoves to our commercial and residential HODbox™ systems."
The Kinetic7 technology has undergone independent academic assessment, expert analysis, and opinion by Professor Paul Fennell and Dr. Andrius Patapas for the Department of Chemical Engineering at Imperial College London.
For more information on Kinetic7, see: www.kinetic7.com.