Improving and decarbonising1 networks
{cannot accept the myth of CO2 causing climate "emergency" or any other effects - therefore "decarbonising" is a misnomer}
Through the Green Heat Network Fund, the UK Government, has announced 28 funding awards totalling over £348m.
Projects supported by the Fund include a major new network in North-West London which will take waste heat from data centres and supply it to 10,000 new homes and 250,000m2 of commercial space.
In November the remaining Heat Networks Investment Project awards were announced.
Totalling £9.8m;
- London Borough of Islington (£678k) for an extension to the council's Bunhill network,
- Gateshead Council (£2.9m) for further connections to their Gateshead District Energy Scheme and
- E.ON (£6.3m) for their innovative Silvertown network in London's Docklands.
Through the Heat Network Efficiency Scheme (HNES) the government awarded over £34m to 230 projects over six funding rounds.
They have now launched the HNTAS pilot programme to test the scheme rules on live projects, ensuring HNTAS works in practice and aligns with industry needs, as well as the heat training grant, which provides those working in heat networks with up to £500 towards the cost of heat network training.
Building the future 'Pipeline'
The UK Government has announced the first towns and cities to have zones developed, benefitting from the low-cost, low-carbon heating offered through heat network zones. This included the South Westminster Area Network (SWAN) project (pictured ), which will take heat from the London Underground and the Thames and could heat famous landmark buildings such as Parliament, Whitehall and Westminster Abbey. SWAN is a great example of the speed at which we can bring a heat network to market and sets the ambition for the future pipeline as we move into 2025.
This article has been based upon the Heat Network Newsletter from 17th December 2024 as written by John Allison, Deputy Director for Heat Networks Delivery at the Department of {laughingly called} Energy Security & Net Zero. We have written extensively regarding "Net Zero" and its fallacious reasoning several times within this website. In addition all, and every false narratives regarding CO2, Methane, Global Warming, Climate Emergency and Climate Change is utterly rejected. Therefore - 'decarbonisation' is a false terminology. However the Department of Energy should be promoting the concepts of Energy Efficiency, Improvements in Fuel Utilisation/Efficiency and Technology advances within these paradigms.