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New protections for thousands of consumers on heat networks | |
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2020-02-06 | |
发布年 | 2020 |
语种 | 英语 |
国家 | 英国 |
领域 | 气候变化 |
正文(英文) | Press release New protections for thousands of consumers on heat networksPlans for new protections for households on heat networks, making sure customers are paying a fair price and getting a good service.
Thousands of customers on heat networks will benefit from new protections under plans launched today. The proposed measures will ensure that customers are paying a fair price for their heating and getting a good service by bringing the regulation of heat networks into line with other utilities. This will encourage the current networks to expand and new ones to be established, meaning thousands more homes and businesses could have access to cleaner heating in the next decade. Secretary of State for Business and Energy Andrea Leadsom said:
Heat networks – sometimes called district heating – provide heat for homes and businesses in place of a traditional gas boiler. Low carbon heat networks such as those that source energy from a heat pump or waste to energy plant distribute energy to thousands of customers, making them far more efficient than most existing forms of heating. Ms Leadsom also announced £40 million of investment in 7 heat networks in Leeds, Bristol, Liverpool and London today. The funding – part of the government’s Heat Networks Investment Project – will mean that 30,000 more homes could have access to clean heating. This could lead to 154,300 tonnes of CO2 being saved over the next 15 years – the equivalent of planting 400,000 trees. At present less than 5% of energy used for heating homes and buildings comes from low-carbon sources. Increasing the number of homes and businesses on heat networks is an important part of the government’s plans to improve take-up of low-carbon heat as the UK seeks to end its contribution towards climate change entirely by 2050. Heat networks are one of the most cost-effective ways of reducing carbon emissions from heating, and their efficiency and carbon-saving potential increases as they grow and connect to each other. The Committee on Climate Change estimates that around 18% of UK heat will need to come from heat networks by 2050 if the UK is to meet its net zero target. The measures proposed in the consultation being launched today include:
Respond to the Heat networks consultation About the Heat Networks Investment Project
Published 6 February 2020
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来源平台 | GOV.UK - Department for Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy |
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条目标识符 | http://119.78.100.173/C666/handle/2XK7JSWQ/227846 |
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