Making the case for heat networks Q&A

Session
Wednesday, 18 May 2016
14:18 - 14:18
Duration: 18 mins
Publication date: 02 Jun 2016
Location: Heat theatre, Hall 12, NEC, Birmingham, United Kingdom
Part of event Utility Week Live

About the session

Making the case for heat networks.

This seminar will examine the opportunities and challenges presented by heat networks, exploring technical feasibility and economic viability, optimisation for locality, exploitation of a range of heat sources and the latest on obligations for customer protection and industry technical standards.

Keywords:: decarbonisation

district development

district heating

energy

energy conversion

energy efficiency

heat

heat energy

heat loss

heat pumps

property development utilities

utilities

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Speakers

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.
Jeremy Bungey

E.ON, Head of Community Energy

Jeremy is a qualified Chartered Accountant with over 20 years’ experience in the Energy Industry and 6 years ago started a district heating business within E.ON UK Plc. E.ON Community Energy soon became the UK market leader in the new build district heating ESCO market. Today Community Energy provides heat to more than 15,000 customers, across 37 district heating networks. When fully built these networks will deliver heat to over 38,000 customers.Jeremy puts the success of Community Energy down to a strong focus on delivering a quality service to the client and customer.
Ian Allan

Switch 2, Head of R&D
Jeremy Bungey

E.ON, Head of Community Energy

Jeremy is a qualified Chartered Accountant with over 20 years’ experience in the Energy Industry and 6 years ago started a district heating business within E.ON UK Plc. E.ON Community Energy soon became the UK market leader in the new build district heating ESCO market. Today Community Energy provides heat to more than 15,000 customers, across 37 district heating networks. When fully built these networks will deliver heat to over 38,000 customers.Jeremy puts the success of Community Energy down to a strong focus on delivering a quality service to the client and customer.

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