Research and analysis

Alternative heat solutions: converting a town to low carbon heating

A study analysing the costs and barriers associated with converting a UK town to low carbon heating.

• From: Department for Energy Security and Net Zero and Department for Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy
• Published: 12 April 2019

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Alternative heat solutions: converting a town to low carbon heating

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Details

As part of its wider research into heat decarbonisation, BEIS commissioned Ramboll Energy to explore possible technologies able to convert a UK town to low carbon heating and to analyse the costs, practical constraints and challenges associated with each of them.

The technologies analysed were:

• hydrogen with carbon capture and storage combined with electric cooking
• hybrid heat pumps with gas cooking
• electric heat pumps and electric cooking
• district heating from biomass and heat pumps

Published 12 April 2019