Roadblocks to low temperature district heating

Michael-Allan Millar; Bruce Elrick; Greg Jones; Zhibin Yu; Neil M. Burnside

doi:10.3390/en13225893

Roadblocks to low temperature district heating

Michael-Allan Millar, Bruce Elrick, Greg Jones, Zhibin Yu, Neil M. Burnside

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Abstract

Energy usage in buildings is coming increasingly under the spotlight as carbon policy focus shifts towards the utilization of thermal energy. In the UK, heating and hot water accounts for around 40% of energy consumption and 20% of greenhouse gas emissions. Heating is typically produced onsite, making widescale carbon or energetic improvements challenging. District Heating Networks (DHNs) can offer significant carbon reduction for many users but can only be implemented if the end user buildings have good thermal energy efficiency. This greatly limits the
ability to implement advancing 4th and 5 15 th generation DHNs, which are the most advanced systems available.

Original language	English
Article number	5893
Number of pages	21
Journal	Energies
Volume	13
Issue number	22
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.3390/en13225893
Publication status	Published - 12 Nov 2020

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district heating
low temperature
5th generation

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