What Is District Heating
What Is District Heating
A district heating scheme comprises a network of insulated pipes used to deliver heat, in the form of hot water or steam, from the point of generation to an end user |
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Benefits Of Heat Networks
District heating networks provide the following direct benefits:
- Enabling the efficient transportation and use of heat for a wide variety of users
- Allowing a broad range of energy generation technologies to work together to meet demand for heat
- Enabling fuel flexibility
- Helping to efficiently manage supply and demand of energy
- Lowering costs of energy generation
- Dramatically increasing fuel efficiency through use of CHP
- Reducing labour and maintenance cost as compared to individual systems
These in turn deliver a range of beneficial outcomes:- Provides a means of securing significant reduction in CO2 emissions through the optimisation of heat supply in the UK
- Extending the reach of renewables, by using renewable heat efficiently and providing opportunities for the deployment of renewable technologies that otherwise wouldn’t be viable
- Iimproving security of supply
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