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Heat Decarbonisation - the options

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Event
  • Session
  • Wednesday, 18 May 2016
  • 13:18 - 13:18
  • Duration: 13 mins
  • Publication date: 02 Jun 2016
  • Location: Heat theatre, Hall 12, NEC, Birmingham, United Kingdom
  • Part of event Utility Week Live

About the session

Understanding the implications and potential routes for decarbonising heat

This seminar will examine the three main routes for decarbonisation of heat, re-purposing the gas grid, upgrading electricity networks and heat networks.  The seminar will explore and compare the potential infrastructure impacts and associated costs for each route

Keywords:
  • Heat
  • Heat Decarbonisation
  • electrification
  • energy
  • energy conversion
  • gas grids
  • heat pumps
  • low carbon district heating
  • resistive heating

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  • Dr Keith MacLean

    Dr Keith MacLean

    Providence Policy, Managing Director

    Keith is a Chemistry graduate and postgraduate from Heriot-Watt and Hamburg Universities, and an Honorary Fellow of Energy Policy at the University of Exeter.Following 8 years at BDF, a chemical company in Germany, Keith returned to Scotland and led a contract research business at IRI before working 20 years at energy utility SSE. He has worked in a broad range of roles in the energy industry and was also responsible for starting-up and running SSE’s telecoms business. For the last 10 years he was SSEs Policy and Research Director.Keith has acted as an advisor on energy policy to both the UK and Scottish Governments and has been involved in many industry advisory and working groups. He is currently Chair of the Energy Research Partnership and was recently appointed Chair of UKERCs Advisory Board. He has been a director of the UK Business Council for Sustainable Energy and its successor, Energy UK, as well as Scottish Renewables, the Micropower Council, BWEA and EWEA.Keith is founding director of Providence Policy where he works as an independent energy advisor.
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