Power Engineering International
Summary
Bindi Patel of Vattenfall Heat UK argues that district heating is the enabling infrastructure needed to get to net zero. The UK is currently missing climate targets on nearly every front, according to the government’s own scientific advisors.
In their latest progress report on UK emissions reduction, the Climate Change Committee couldn’t have been clearer that progress towards reaching net zero is too slow.
Cities and larger towns have enormous amounts of unused heat – from industrial processes, sewage plants, datacentres and water from disused mines.
With district heating, this under-utilised resource can be captured and used to warm homes and offices, so that we don’t need to burn more fossil fuels. For customers, there is peace of mind in an all-inclusive service with repairs and servicing included.
District heating involves an underground network of insulated pipes that connects multiple buildings to centralised sources of heat. It is one of the ways we can rapidly decarbonise heating at scale.
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