Blow For Leeds District Heating As Councillors Scale Back Plans

PPC played a key role in constructing the primary District Heating Network at Swaffham Prior. The Money Box team at the BBC featured Swaffham in their ‘heating the homes of the future’ radio programme on January 1st, 2023. Listen now...

 An energy efficient tool is planned to boost Camden’s low carbon future, through the instillation of a revolutionary Leanheat artificial intelligent software technology.  This is owing to a new partnership between Vital Energi and Danfoss and Camden Council, who have...

A modification to the proposed Clean Heat Grant could offer £7000 to incentivise homeowners to replace gas boilers with energy-efficient and eco-friendly alternatives. The proposal, having been consulted upon earlier in the year, is set to come into force next...

The use of low-carbon energy sources in district heating systems is a vital part of reducing the world’s energy emissions, an industrial engineer has said. Dave Pearson of Star Refrigeration, which is based in COP26 host city Glasgow, said as delegates prepare to...

A Clydebank district heating scheme has been awarded a prestigious European Heat Pump City of The Year Award, an award that recognises the smartest, most efficient, and most sustainable heat pump projects across the continent. The Queens Quay scheme was...

Midlothain Council in western Scotland has signed up to a 40-year deal to provide a district heating system for the community. The £20m energy centre will be built at Millerhill, and the council has ruled that it will not need an environmental impact assessment to go...

Much of the discussion surrounding district heating projects naturally gravitates towards the adoption of heat pumps and other heat network infrastructure that allows for incredibly efficient heating in urban areas. This is perhaps expected, as the...

Plans to provide £5,000 grants to enable people to install low carbon boiler replacements such as heat pumps have been unveiled, boosting the potential for more widespread district heating systems. The plans, unveiled as part of the government’s Heat and...

District heating has reentered the conversation as a low-carbon, low-cost heat solution for large groups of people. These heat networks take heat from a central source, often as a waste byproduct of manufacturing, power generation or waste destruction, and...

Swedish energy company Vattenfall has announced that it is planning a district heating network that will supply homes in London with low- and zero-carbon heat from solid waste plants. Edie reports that Vattenfall, which already operates district heating schemes in...