10.5286/UKERC.EDC.000283
Woods, P.
AECOM
UK Energy Research Centre Energy Data Centre (UKERC EDC)
Caterpillar
Electricité de France SA (EDF SA)
University of Manchester
Macro DE - Macro DE WP5.4 : Summary Report
ETI
2012
Distributed Energy
ENERGY EFFICIENCY (Residential and commercial)
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The Government’s recently published heat strategy identifies two pathways for the long-term reduction in Carbon Dioxide (CO<sub>2</sub>) emissions from energy for heating buildings and provision of domestic hot water:<ul><li>the use of district heating (DH) supplied by a range of low carbon heat sources</li><li>the use of individual heat pumps supplied by a largely decarbonised electricity grid</li></ul>The Government recognises that in high density urban areas DH is likely to be more cost effective and that in rural areas DH is not a practical solution. This leaves a large proportion of the country where either option would be feasible technically but where there is considerable uncertainty as to which option is preferable from both a cost and CO<sub>2</sub> perspective.<br><br>The Macro District Energy (DE) project has been able to establish the cost of heat supply and the CO<sub>2</sub> emissions for a range of characteristic zones which represent the urban and suburban areas within Great Britain<br><br>This summary report describes the work packages and their outcomes, and makes recommendations for future work, particularly covering issues found, but not explored, in this project.<!-- CO2 -->