Heat networks

District heating in Scotland gets £1.5m funding boost

Knocks on wood

Industry develops heat customer protection plan

EMR risks making biomass schemes “uninvestable”

Barker launches £6m district heating fund

The big picture: growing strains

Decc appoints investment director for new Heat Networks Delivery Unit

Sewerage is an asset, not the solution to a problem

Since privatisation, the logic of an integrated clean and dirty water enterprise structure has dominated in the water sector. This was underpinned by the logic of scale economies, so necessary to utilities originating in a public service ethos. Is that about to change? In the "dustbin" solid waste economy, disposal taxes will have increased the upper price ceiling of waste disposal from £7 per tonne in 1997 to £100 in 2013, powering a veritable explosion of new entrants offering alternatives to landfill. Unsurprisingly, this is creating a loop back to technology innovation embracing new bio, thermo, chemical and mechanical applications able to prosper at these higher rates of reward. The stimulus is not just fiscal, however.

Government must untangle energy efficiency policy

Southwark Council creates SELCHP heating network

MPs back medium renewable energy projects

First Green Investment Bank funds for Northern Ireland

Capacity market will drive away biomass developers

The introduction of a capacity market will devalue biomass power plants and drive developers from the UK, industry figures have warned.

Decc ends subsidy to dedicated biomass power

Dedicated biomass power plants will no longer be eligible for subsidies, under the draft Electricity Market Reform delivery plan set out by government on Wednesday.

Grangemouth biomass CHP plant gets go-ahead

The Scottish Government has awarded planning consent to a combined heat and power biomass plant at the Port of Grangemouth. It will be the largest of its kind in Scotland.