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• Community Heating Posted on 11 July 2022

  The basics: What is community and district heating?

  Even the decentralised energy sector sometimes struggle to understand what is community and district heating and the differences between them. Therefore we thought it would be useful to explain what they are and to demonstrate the differences, clearing up some of the common preconceptions.

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• Metering and billing Posted on 8 July 2022

  Unmetered Series: Can heat meters pay for themselves?

  Payback times on the installation of heat meters has historically not been a driving factor in the decision to start metering heat networks. However, the current price of gas represents a unique opportunity to mitigate dramatic effects of the energy price rises and may be the only redeeming feature of the energy crisis – payback times have never been shorter. 

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• Metering and billing Posted on 21 June 2022

  Unmetered Series: Unmetered is unmanaged

  With the cost of energy, fuel, food and inflation affecting everyone across the country and the world, there have been fewer moments than ever before where actions can be taken that will make a real impact to people’s lives, especially to the lives of those in society who are feeling the strain more than others.

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• decarbonisation Posted on 21 April 2022

  What is a Heat Interface Unit? | The Connected HIU Series | Switch2

  As part of the launch of our next generation ICON HIU, we’re examining the role of HIUs in heat networks. In our first blog on the subject, we’ll be asking what exactly a Heat Interface Unit (HIU) is, and looking at the different types of HIU.

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• Community Heating Posted on 20 April 2022

  Combatting fuel poverty through heat metering

  Rising energy prices are a concern for many in the UK and around the globe at present. According to the latest BEIS statistics, in 2020, there were an estimated 13.2 per cent of households (3.16 million) in fuel poverty in England under the Low Income Low Energy Efficiency (LILEE) metric.

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• Community Heating Posted on 5 April 2022

  4th & 5th Generation Heat Networks

  Following this year’s Future of Heat conference, we thought it would be timely to revisit the topic of 4^th and 5^th generation heat networks, and to examine the role that they can play in the effort towards decarbonising the UK.

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