CIBSE Energy Performance Group Power Hour: Low and Zero Carbon Heat Networks can it be done

This is a video of the Energy Power Hour webinar from 21 Jan 2021, in which Phil Jones, Bhav Patel, Antony Meanwell, and Henrietta Cooke talked on the question “Low and Zero Carbon Heat Networks: can it be done?”

Video content:

00:00 Start
00:17 Roger Macklin introduces the Energy Performance Group and its Power Hour
02:14 Helen Gavin introduces the event
02:43 Phil Jones, London South Bank University: “Heat Networks”
12:43 Antony Meanwell, Eon Energy: “Citigen Decarbonisation”
20:28 Bhav Patel, Vattenfall: “Performance of Heat Networks”
29:37 Henrietta Cooke, BEIS: “Low carbon heat networks– policy environment”
38:39 Start of the Q&A session
51:07 Closing comment by each speaker
53:42 Goodbyes


Climate change is changing our planet and society and we need to reduce our emissions fast. One way to do this is through Low and Zero Carbon Heat Networks.

Although heat networks currently account for a small proportion of the UK heating systems, low and zero carbon heat networks have an important role to play to reduce the carbon emissions from heating. They also provide an opportunity to exploit larger scale renewable and recovered heat sources that otherwise cannot be used.

Phil, Bhav, Antony, and Henrietta each presented on different aspects of heat then answered questions raised by the audience.

Slides can be found here: https://www.cibse.org/networks/groups/energy-performance-group/power-hours

Our speakers:

Prof Phil Jones, London South Bank University,
Professor Phil Jones has over 40 years’ experience in decarbonising buildings across the UK.
For the last 25 years he has been working on heat networks, and for the last 5 years he has focused on large heat pump schemes.
Phil is a visiting Professor at London South Bank University and is currently working on the GreenSCIES 5th generation scheme in Islington, London.
He is lead author on the recently published CIBSE CP1 (2020) Heat Networks Code of Practice.

Antony Meanwell, Eon Energy
Antony currently works in EON’s City Energy Solutions team.
One of his responsibilities is looking at how we decarbonise E.ON’s UK district heating schemes.
Before that Antony has helped public sector organisations to reduce energy and carbon through energy efficiency projects across their existing estate.

Bhav Patel, Vattenfall
Bhav currently works for Vattenfall Heat UK as Head of Operational Readiness ensuring the performance of the site can be achieved through systematic acceptance of assets and delivering on contractual commitments
Previous to Vattenfall, he worked for 7 years at E.ON in number of positions spanning across various energy technologies including fleet wide operational excellence programmes
He has operational experience of heat network acceptance and delivering performance improvement modifications

Henrietta Cooke, Department of Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS)
Henrietta currently works in BEIS’s Heat Networks Delivery Unit as a Project Lead, supporting Local Authorities with the delivery of feasibility and detailed design studies, mostly in the south of England.
Prior to that she worked in an engineering consultancy where I worked on the commercial and financial side of heat network studies (she’s an accountant by trade).
And prior to that she had a senior finance role in a large independent renewable electricity generator – c.120MW of biomass + wind generation.

Helen Gavin, University of Oxford,
Helen is based in the Environmental Change Institute of the University of Oxford, working on the Programme on Integrating Renewable Energy.
She is a sustainability professional, passionate about renewable energy and water resources, with expertise in a range of quantitative environmental issues.
She has covered a range of roles including technical specialist, water and energy auditor, programme manager and knowledge exchange, in consultancy and in academia.