Witteveen+Bos front row in UK's energy transition

During the past two and a half years, Witteveen+Bos has successfully contributed to a zoning plan pilot programme for heat networks in Sheffield, Stoke-on-Trent and Peterborough. In line with this, we were recently added to the new Heat Zoning Framework in the United Kingdom (UK) for a period of two to four years.
On the other side of the North Sea, the government has assumed a controlling role in the transition from natural gas to sustainable technologies for heating homes and buildings. In this context, the Department for Energy Security and Net Zero (DESNZ) identifies zones where heat networks offer the most cost-effective low-carbon heating option. The actual transition will then be driven forward by requiring large energy consumers such as hospitals, public buildings and businesses to connect to the heat networks to be built in these zones, through legislation that will come into effect in 2025.
Witteveen+Bos is helping DESNZ prepare the heat zoning plans. By deploying GIS analysis, we map where potential customers are located, the level of demand in terms of MW capacity and also where suitable sources of waste heat are located. Once a viable business case for a heat network has been identified in a particular area, our experts also get to work engineering the heat network in the designated zone.
The fact that we are able to provide comprehensive guidance with regard to planning and the feasibility and implementation of heat networks is one of our key differentiators. The valuable lessons we have learned from ten years of experience with heat networks in the Netherlands were also a deciding factor in the British government's decision to award Witteveen+Bos a new multi-year framework agreement.
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