Rural, community-led heat networks are possible in the UK and Regen SW has been working for the Department of Energy and Climate Change (DECC) to understand the main viability factors: planning policy, gas grid and heat load.
Making rural heat networks happen Read More »
It said that “ripping up all our gas mains and throwing everyone’s boilers out” is not a sensible approach to decarbonising heat in the UK.
Labour backs gas grid evolution Read More »
“The costs of carbon capture and storage must come down if it is to play a part in the long-term decarbonisation of the UK’s economy.”
Is CCS worth the candle? Read More »
By 2035 we envisage a very different world. We can expect a much more diverse range of heating sources, with significantly lower emissions, and where all new vehicles are low carbon. The energy system of the future will be more decentralised, disaggregated and multi-vector, where for each of our needs there will not be just one solution, but many.
How will energy look in 2035? Read More »
The project, spread across two sites in Didmarton and Bibury, is the second phase of a pilot scheme started in 2015 by Bromford to determine the viability of the technology.
Heating bills slashed in heat pump pilot 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 »
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 »
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”.
