City Monitor
Summary
Decarbonisation of heat has a major role to play in delivering successful urban energy transition, with district heating networks promising new possibilities in communal heating systems. However, as E.ON’s Antony Meanwell explains, this can only be realised through proper engagement and fully integrating heat network schemes into a city’s wider net-zero efforts.
District heating is particularly suited to high-density, built-up areas, with Antony Meanwell, E.ON’s head of decarbonisation for its City Energy Solutions division, pointing to inner-city boroughs like Newham and Tower Hamlets as prime candidates for benefitting from such schemes. The former hosts a university, hospital and hotels, and has an extensive pipeline of housing developments, an airport and a large industrial presence. All represent extensive potential sources of waste heat.
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