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The Department of Energy and Climate Change (Decc) has appointed an investment director of the new Heat Networks Delivery Unit (HNDU).
The former managing director of Ignus Renewable Energy, which designs and develops biomass combined heat and power (CHP) projects, Stephen Brooks, has been appointed to the role.
Brooks was one of the founders, and first employee of, Sheffield heat and Power, which developed a city-wide heat network.
He has also delivered a number of other renewable and fossil fuelled CHP projects in the UK, and designed and developed biomass fuelled CHP and heat network projects in the Netherlands and Belgium.
HNDU will have a £9 million budget over two financial years (2013-14 and 2014-15) to contribute to local authorities’ and local enterprise partnerships’ costs in carrying out the early stage heat network development.
On being named the investment director for the HNDU, Brooks said he was “keen to take the sector in a more strategic direction, looking beyond fossil fuel to low carbon and innovative sources of heat for networks, and developing these networks as part of city-wide development projects”.
He added: “We will work quickly to finalise the team and launch the first round of applications for funding in the next few weeks.”
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