We are delighted to announce that Nicky Butterworth has won the Industry Champion category at this year’s Decentralised Energy Awards organised by the Association for Decentralised Energy. Nicky Butterworth has been a tireless champion for heat networks in the public, private and third sectors. In a variety of roles at [...]
Throughout 2020, heat networks consultancy FairHeat used Guru Pinpoint to analyse ten existing heat networks as part of a project for the Heat Network Optimisation Opportunities programme funded by the Department for Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy (BEIS). Guru Pinpoint is an online analytics platform which gives developers, operators, and [...]
This article was first posted on unlocknetzero.co.uk. By Stephen Page, Chief Technical Officer at Guru Systems In the UK, heat is responsible for 37% of carbon emissions, more than emissions from transport. Low carbon heat networks are a fundamental part of the UK’s decarbonisation strategy, with the Committee on Climate [...]
International Women's Day is a global day celebrating the social, economic, cultural, and political achievements of women. To celebrate International Women's Day 2021 we spoke to four of the women working at Guru Systems about their involvement with the District Heating Divas - the group for women working in the [...]
On 11 February 2021, Guru Systems and Insite Energy hosted the webinar: Could you be caught by the changes to the Heat Network (M&B) Regulations? How to assess and deliver retrofit projects that reduce operational costs and debt risk Watch the recording below. Summary Following the recent changes to the [...]
When it comes to customers, the more choice the better. That’s been a guiding principle behind a lot of energy (and energy efficiency) policy over the past decade. But what if it’s wrong? What if customers don’t want more choice about low carbon heat? What if they just want a [...]
Our mission is to accelerate the decarbonisation of heat by providing data and technology to make energy systems more transparent, lower cost and lower carbon. We design and programme our software products in house, and much of our hardware development happens in house too. Because of this, our technology team [...]
On 3 December 2020, Guru Systems and Altecnic hosted the webinar Delivering intelligent network control with remote HIU configuration. Watch the recording below. Summary Altecnic and Guru Systems have come together to create the Guru Integrate SATK32 - a product that combines Guru’s Hub III Core hardware and the [...]
When CIBSE and the ADE publish the updated Heat Networks Code of Practice (known as CP1 2020) in the coming weeks, a wave of new minimum standards for buildings on heat networks will come into force. These changes, when combined with the recently updated Heat Networks (Metering and Billing) [...]
Last Friday, with little ceremony, the government laid an amendment to the Heat Network (Metering and Billing) Regulations. The industry has been waiting for these changes for five years but when they finally arrived, it became clear that they undermine the government’s commitment to low carbon heat and the principle [...]