Reducing carbon emissions and energy costs is a key priority for thousands of organisations
The transition away from the combustion of fossil fuels for heat and hot water generation is widely recognised as one of the greatest challenges in achieving this aim – renewable heat networks offer a cost-effective means of achieving this transition at scale.
Equans partners with local authorities, businesses and communities and utilises its broad expertise in low carbon & renewable technologies to design, build, operate and maintain heat networks to support customers on their net zero transition.
What is a heat network?
Heat Networks are widely recognised as a sustainable, cost-effective solution for the provision of heating, cooling for homes and businesses.
These systems typically comprise energy centres to generate and supply renewable heat to a network of underground pipes, which in turn connect to the heating and hot water systems in each property, thus removing the need for individual boilers. When powered by renewable & low carbon technologies including heat pumps, waste recovery systems and on-site energy storage, heat networks are a very effective solution for the decarbonisation of heating.
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Our Expertise
Equans’ Digital & Energy Services teams have extensive experience in delivering & managing heat networks, working in partnership with our customers, supply chain and delivery partners. This experience spans the breadth of network development, construction and operation and the full range of delivery models being used for heat network governance.
Our customers benefit from our international expertise, and the business has a heritage of delivering some of the UK’s largest and most technically demanding district energy networks.
Our capabilities:
- Turnkey Design
- Statutory Consenting
- Techno-Economic Modelling
- Install and Commissioning
- Operate & Maintain
- Unlocking Finance
- Performance Optimisation
Partnering with our customers
Equans’ strength in supporting organisations on their energy transition to net zero lies in the range of expertise across the business.
We support organisations on their journey, whether that is energy efficiency retrofit, building at-scale low carbon heat solutions, or new heating, cooling and/or smart local energy networks.
We also specialise in helping develop & deliver placed based energy solutions that consider the needs of the local area whilst enabling the energy transition to net zero carbon emissions.
Decarbonisation Roadmap Development
Major decarbonisation activities, asset replacement strategies, strategic growth roadmaps (master planning and zoning) and plans for natural gas phase out.
Integration of low carbon technologies & waste heat sources triggered by growth and new connections, commercial opportunities or funding availability.
System optimisation and efficiency improvements – Adapting and getting the most out of existing assets, and benefiting from wider energy system carbon and price signalling.
Find out more about our solutions for net zero.