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Heat network conference in Brighton

On 27 April, the Danish Embassy in the UK held a conference looking at the potential for heat networks across the South East of England. 
The conference was supported by the University of Brighton’s Green Growth Platform, the southeast regional hub of Clean Growth UK as well as in partnership with the Danish Board of District Heating. 

Heat networks form an important part of the Government's plan to reduce carbon and cut heating bills for customers. Recent spikes in wholesale energy prices have sent shockwaves around the world and ignited the debate about the need to accelerate the transition away from gas boilers as the primary means to heat our homes and businesses. Motivated by this, the conference highlighted current developing projects in the area of South East England where heat networks are seen as a way to provide greener, flexible and energy-efficient heating to the local areas. Furthermore, Danish companies demonstrated how new and innovative technology can be a big contribution to the local areas’ future heat planning.

 

 

Programme

To find selected presentations, please click on the presenter's name in the programme. 

Welcome note from Green Growth Platform, the Danish Embassy and the Danish Board of District Heating

  • Zoe Osmond, Director, The University of Brighton’s Green Growth Platform, the southeast regional hub of Clean Growth UK
  • Rasmus Leth Traberg, Senior Advisor, Embassy of Denmark in the UK
  • Lars Hummelmose, the Danish Board of District Heating

Context and support for District Heating developments in England. HNIP and HNDU

  • Cantor Mocke, Head of Market Growth for Heat Networks, Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS)

Partnering to deliver heat networks Pinnacle Power Heat

Lessons from Denmark: The case for strategic heat networks in towns, as well as cities

  • Danish policies on heat networks and securing sufficient connection
  • How Denmark uses heat networks actively in creating energy security
  • What are strategic heat networks?
  • Charlotte Owen, Principal Energy Policy Advisor, Royal Danish Embassy in London

Green Growth Platform at Brighton University

  • Zoe Osmond, Director, The University of Brighton’s Green Growth Platform, the southeast regional hub of Clean Growth UK

The Danish experience - Planning, economy, ownership

  • What are the impacts on heat networks viability from energy efficiency improvements in buildings?
  • New solutions to pricing, planning and roll out
  • Is there integration between energy planning for heat and energy efficiency and electricity?
  • Elsebeth Arendt, Head of Heat Networks, Municipality of Aarhus (DK)

Networks in the South East. South East England Energy Group

Worthing and Adur Council: Approach to planning and district heating in Worthing and Adur

  • Dan Goodchild, Carbon Reduction Manager, Adur & Worthing Councils

New and innovation solutions for heat networks

Quick fire pitches:

  1. Barking and Dagenham. The green capital of the Capital.  B&D Energy Ltd was set up by Barking and Dagenham Council to deliver low carbon and working towards zero carbon energy projects throughout the borough and the wider East London area. Efficient implementation of a district heating network has been a cornerstone to achieve this ambition. Silas Flytkjaer, Head of Strategic Business Development,  SAV Systems
    Ørnhøj-Grønbjerg district heating. Straw-fired biomass plant in combination with solar panels, supplying 500 households located in Ørnhøj, Denmark.
    Claus Mikael Larsen, Head of Projects, LIN-KA Energy
  2. Gentofte district heating. Zoned district heating network upgrade in Gentofte, Denmark supplying 300+ properties.
    Glenn Miller, Regional product and solution Manager (Western Europe), Grundfos
  3. Using drones for citywide thermal mapping of Heat Networks. Learnings from Sheffield and Nottingham. Complete mapping of each city took 2 nights with the resulting thousands of radiometric thermal images processed into full radiometric 'orthomaps' before detailed analysis and reporting on any identified thermal anomalies identified.
    Andy Bodycombe, Director, HexCam
  4. Greenwich District Heating Project. Experiences with use water source heat pumps.
    David Kennedy, Director, European Energy Heating UK

Heat networks in Woking – status and future plans

New and innovation solutions to heat networks

Quick fire pitches

  1. The Queens Quay development in Glasgow is one of the largest heat pump scheme of its kind in the UK and will take heat from the River Clyde and use it to heat local homes and businesses. Lee Roberts, General Manager, DESMI
  2. Case from Newcastle heat network – connecting green district heating for a sustainable future, Iain Richards, Director, Kingspan
  3. Ringsted District Heating Company had for long been at around 75% fossil free supply, but then they aimed at 95% and actually reached that target last year. At the same time, they also managed to keep prices stable or declining a bit. The solution is 2 large heat pumps supplemented by 3 small ones.
    Jonas Loholm Hamann, Danfoss
  4. Refurbishing existing heat network. Finding from the Bloomsbury heat network refurbishment
    Lucy Padfield, Director, Ramboll


 

Contact 

For more information on the event and future events, please contact Senior Advisor Rasmus Leth Traberg. 

Rasmus Leth Traberg
Sector Expert on Energy & Cleantech
Tel: +44 (0)20 7333 0232 
E-mail: [email protected]

Please note, the Danish Board of District Heating publishes a magazine 'Hot Cool' with topics on how to convert from gas, how to get started with district heating, hydrogen in addition to state-of-the-art district heating and cooling technologies. Subscribe to 'Hot Cool' via their website here.