Heat Network Optimization Articles & Analysis
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Leading heat network provider, Switch2 Energy, has published - Sustainable Energy, Sustainable Business – a new paper exploring the vital role that heat networks play in the UK’s transition to net zero while supporting environmental, social and governance (ESG) goals across the public and private sectors. With heating accounting for 37% of the UK’s carbon emissions, improving ...
The £32 million government scheme is designed to support improvements in the performance of existing district and communal heating projects, with a focus on efficiency, improving customer experiences and preparing the sector for regulation. After previously receiving significant funding in 2022, Switch2 has been awarded a share of £640,000 from the scheme in revenue grants, intended ...
Switch2’s ICON connected heat interface unit (HIU), which is improving heat network efficiency by up to 35%, has been shortlisted in the HVR Awards 2023 (Domestic Heating Product Of The Year category). Richard Harrison, CEO of Switch2 Energy said: “ICON is a great example of UK design, engineering and manufacture and it’s playing a critical role in raising heat network ...
The heat network efficiency guide explains the 3 steps operators can take to maximise performance of the UK’s 17,500 existing schemes, many of which perform at low efficiency levels. Switch2 calculates that increasing efficiency by 30% on a poor performing heat network (serving 300 properties) could save more than £110,000 and 298 tonnes of CO2 per year. That’s based on gas ...
The new ICON electronic heat interface unit (HIU) – designed and manufactured in the UK by Switch2 – has been nominated for the Innovation of the Year (energy provision) Award. Icon is a game-changing technology that provides full remote monitoring of heat networks – improving efficiency by up to 35% and generating big cost and carbon savings. It uses advanced 5G internet of ...
Switch2's new ICON electronic heat interface unit (HIU), which provides full remote monitoring of heat networks – to improve efficiency by up to 35%, has been nominated for the Technology Innovation award. The company has also received a double nomination in the Heat and Efficiency Project award category. This marks its success in delivering exceptional efficiency and carbon savings at two major ...
Hosted by heat network specialist Switch2 Energy, the event will explore solutions to three major challenges facing the industry. These are how to reduce operating costs and residents’ energy bills; how to reduce carbon emissions, and how to comply with tougher new regulation.Guest speakers from Ofgem; The Department for Energy Security & Net Zero; Ener-Vate, and Shoosmiths will join ...
‘Heat Networks: Cost, Carbon, Compliance’ – a conference hosted by Switch2 Energy in London on Thursday 19 January – will explore challenges facing owners and operators of communal heating schemes. Local authorities, housing associations and private developers with heat networks in their portfolio are invited to the free conference. Event hosts Switch2 will be joined by ...
Judges of the prestigious H&V News Awards nominated Switch2's Greenwich Millennium Village heat network retrofit as 'District Heating Project of the Year', while the company's ICON connected heat interface unit (HIU) has been shortlisted for 'Domestic Heating Product of the Year' award. Switch2's design, build and operate ESCo partnership with Greenwich Millennium Village Limited (GMVL) is ...
Switch2 Energy has won a prestigious Energy Award for its innovative ICON connected heat interface unit (HIU), which is transforming heat network performance to reduce costs and carbon emissions. ICON, which uses open protocol and Internet of Things (IoT) technology to improve heat network efficiency by up to 35%, has won the 'Physical Technology of the Year - Heating and Cooling Award' at The ...
Switch2 Energy has been named as a finalist in the prestigious Energy Awards, in recognition of its innovative ICON connected heat interface unit (HIU), which is transforming heat network performance by lowering costs and reducing carbon emissions. ICON, which uses open protocol and Internet of Things (IoT) technology to Improve heat network efficiency by up to 35%, has been shortlisted for the ...
Switch2 Energy has won funding from The Heat Network Efficiency Scheme (HNES) to improve efficiency and carbon performance across 9 of the communal heating schemes it operates. The £4.175 million HNES government grant scheme supports performance improvements to existing heat networks. The aim is to deliver sustained efficiency savings in fuel consumption and carbon emissions to provide a ...
The new ICON connected heat interface unit (HIU), launched by Switch2 Energy, is relieving the impact of higher gas prices for heat network suppliers and their customers. ICON is helping housing associations, local authorities and private developers to improve heat network efficiency by up to 35%. This is resulting in major cost savings, while also reducing CO2 emissions by as much as 40%. ...
Community and district heating specialist Switch2 Energy has made its ‘lockdown learning‘ heat network webinars available free on-demand to professionals from the housing, construction and property sectors. More than 600 people attended the live webinars, which cover best practice in the planning, design, development and operation of heat networks. Now hundreds more will be able to ...
Free heat network webinars have been made available on-demand by Switch2 Energy, which has also announced the next topics in its live online seminar series for June and July. The free webinars cover the latest know-how in planning, designing, developing and operating heat networks. Content is targeted at local authorities, housing associations, private developers, designers, consultants, and ...
The heat network specialist has been shortlisted for the Data Project of the Year Award in recognition of its Switch2 Optimise big data analytics platform. This digital solution is transforming efficiency across UK district heating schemes, where it is delivering energy savings of 35% – resulting in dramatic cost and carbon reductions. Optimise uses smart technology to connect plant ...
Heat networks are the logical choice for greener high-density housing development – to meet ambitious emissions reduction targets being considered by UK governments, says Switch2 Energy. Disconnecting new homes from the gas grid by 2025 and accelerating heat network deployment in towns and cities are two of the radical recommendations by the Committee on Climate Change (CCC) in its new ...
The Committee on Climate Change (CCC) is right to propose a ban on gas boilers in new homes by 2025, says heat network specialist Switch2 Energy."Heating homes with individual gas boilers, where high efficiency heat networks or lower carbon solutions are viable, is a nail in the coffin for the environment", says Richard Slee, CEO of Switch2."We welcome the CCC's call for the greater role of heat ...
How to improve heat network efficiency, and the Competitions & Markets Authority's (CMA) proposed regulation of the district and community heating sector, will be under discussion at two free breakfast seminars this autumn – hosted by Switch2 Energy and Winckworth Sherwood. The first event on Thursday 27 September will look at how to optimise heat network performance by taking a more ...
The company has been shortlisted in three of the eight award categories – marking its achievements in community and district heating over the past four decades. Switch2's Head of Customer Services, Fiona McDonald, is in the running for the Champion award. This recognises her leadership in raising standards of customer service excellence in the heat network industry and her recent ...