The model is being developed through the Bedminster project in which Low Carbon and ENE are working together with Bristol City Council on the deployment of a heat network.
Low Carbon invests in district heating to develop replicable finance model Read More »
The seed money is the first to be handed out as part of the Heat Networks Investment Project, for which a £320 million pot has been set aside by the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS).
Low-carbon heat networks awarded £24 million Read More »
The report highlights the issues faced by more than 30,000 customers across 51 heat networks around the country.
Heat Trust report highlights need for customer service Read More »
If we want heat networks to play an important part in the energy landscape, then the onus is on network technology and service providers to make sure that there are clear and consistent standards for the performance that should be expected from the most critical elements of the system.
Heat Interface Units: efficiency and performance expectations Read More »
Losses that go unchecked can easily double the cost of heat on the network, but while everyone agrees it’s hugely important to limit losses, the approach we currently take to heat loss is damaging the performance of our networks. Let me explain.
Heat loss headaches Read More »
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 »
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 »
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 »
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”.
