Energetik, the energy company owned by Enfield Council, will supply over 15,000 homes and businesses in Enfield through a series of heat networks. Each network is designed to expand so that more customers can connect over time and help energetik realise its vision to ‘transform the local energy market and be the supplier to trust’.
Heat network company welcomes its first customers in Enfield Read More »
Sponsored by the Department for Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy (BEIS) and in conjunction with Network Magazine, the event will be held on Wednesday, April 26 at RICS, Parliament Square, 12 Great George Street, London.
Heat network efficiency to be explored at event (Guru Systems – Quantifying Performance) Read More »
When politicians talk about the ‘energy trilemma’ (carbon emissions, security of energy supply, energy costs) facing the UK, most people focus on electricity and, more specifically, on “keeping the lights on”.
Heat networks and the trilemma Read More »
The Government has serious ambitions for district heating, or heat networks as it calls them. In fact it has two billion pounds worth of ambition, which is the amount of investment it wants over the decade to construct over 200 schemes being sponsored by local authorities and property developers. That’s enough heat for 400,000 homes and probably a trebling of the current heat network capacity that has been built up over decades. Will there be enough people with the right skills and experience to build design, build and operate the new heat networks? Are we training enough people to fill the gaps?
Heat networks bottleneck Read More »
It will offer grants and loans to both the public and private sectors in England and Wales, for networks serving two or more buildings.
Heat Networks Investment Project to launch in Autumn Read More »
The energy landscape is now far different to how it was just a couple of months ago.
Heat networks: the post-Brexit energy solution? Read More »
Necessity is the mother of innovation: our best ideas often come out of our shortcomings and the need to change.
Heat networks: where is innovation needed? Read More »
Heat accounts for almost one half of UK energy costs and the cost of heat continues to rise. Britain faces an urgent challenge in transforming how homes, offices and industry are heated; in its recent report Next Steps for UK Heat Policy, the Committee on Climate Change put it simply: “deployment of low carbon heat cannot wait until the 2030s”.
The ETI said the ground-breaking technology could offer a low-cost method of storing large volumes of excess renewable electricity.
Ground-breaking energy storage operational in Newcastle Read More »
Recent research and demonstrator projects are beginning to show that integrating the use of hydrogen into Britain’s energy system is feasible.
H21 project highlights potential of hydrogen Read More »
