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 [...]
Right now, only a small percent of buildings in the UK have heat energy supplied by heat networks - but that figure is expected to rise to at least 18% by 2050. We visited the East London District Energy Scheme to explain what a heat network is, how they [...]