WARMTE: How the Netherlands Is Rebuilding Heat After Gas In our latest white paper, WARMTE Heat for the Common Good, we explore how the Netherlands is tackling one of the biggest challenges facing both Dutch and UK energy systems: what comes after natural gas? Rather than relying solely on individual technology choices, the Dutch are …
Britain likes to tell itself that large-scale infrastructure change has become too difficult: too slow, too fragmented, too politically fraught. But there is a forgotten story that challenges that assumption. In just a decade, Britain converted millions of homes and businesses from town gas to natural gas, replumbed expectations about what heating could be, and …
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A healthier loch, warmer homes, lower bills, and more value staying in the community – that is the story at the heart of CATCH: A Different Kind of Energy Story. Set around Loch Leven, Kinross and Milnathort, it imagines a future where environmental repair and affordable local heat are not competing priorities, but part of …
Drax has become a familiar subject of controversy, scrutinised by campaigners, journalists and Parliament alike. Much of that attention has focused on the origins of the fuel it burns. Far less attention has been paid to the energy it wastes. For decades, one of the country’s largest power stations has rejected vast quantities of usable …
The recent burst of commentary framing heat networks as a “Soviet-style” project, or even a “communist energy plot” is misdirection.
The Telegraph recently compared modern heat networks to communist-era systems. The comparison may be catchy; but it is also technically lazy.
As our Top Trumps cards demonstrate, there’s a wealth of freely available and waste heat sources all across the UK – many of which are hidden in plain sight. From our oceans, lochs, and canals,
to breweries, bakeries, and data centres, we have thousands of viable heat sources that can reduce costs and emissions for millions of homes.
RavenResidential continues to see significant growth and progress, with approximately 8,000 metering points currently up and running. This growth is set to continue, with over 1,000 new metering points expected to be commissioned in the upcoming quarter.
As coastal towns in the United Kingdom look to revitalize their economies and transition
to greener energy, they can find inspiration just across the North Sea in Hvide Sande.
Large-scale heat pumps are rare in the UK, but they’re vital to the growth of district heating and making net zero a reality. When coupled with thermal storage, heat pumps can become ‘green heat converters’ that soak up cheap renewable and supply heat networks with 24/7 clean heating.
The energy crisis has dramatically pushed Danes to convert from fossil fuel heating, such as natural gas and oil to heat networks. New figures from the Danish Heat networks Association show that around 20,000 new homes will be connected to heat networks by 2022.
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