Advantages & Benefits

Benefits of heat networks

District heating networks provide the following direct benefits:

• enabling the efficient transportation and use of heat for a wide variety of users
• allowing a broad range of energy generation technologies to work together to meet demand for heat
• enabling fuel flexibility
• helping to efficiently manage supply and demand of energy
• lowering costs of energy generation
• dramatically increasing fuel efficiency through use of CHP
• reducing labour and maintenance cost as compared to individual systems

These in turn deliver a range of beneficial outcomes:

• provides a means of securing significant reduction in CO2 emissions through the optimisation of heat supply in the UK
• extending the reach of renewables, by using renewable heat efficiently and providing opportunities for the deployment of renewable technologies that otherwise wouldn’t be viable
• improving security of supply