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District heating is a good thing right?\u00a0 In the UK its still relatively uncommon but in Scandinavian countries very common and in some such as Sweden the most common form of heating.\u00a0 (By district heating I mean a heating system common to a building, a street or even a district or entire city.)<\/p>\n

Heating is a real problem as far low carbon energy is concerned.\u00a0 By contrast de-carbonising electricity or even transport is actually easy (believe it or not).\u00a0 This is because renewable heating systems are low temperature systems.\u00a0 Such systems are disruptive to fit and also require very well insulated buildings.\u00a0 For more details see our book<\/a>.\u00a0 This helps to explain why in the UK the renewable heat incentive has been low on the uptake and not cut by the government.<\/p>\n

District heating systems are very expensive and disruptive to build (with lots of digging up roads and burying pipes).\u00a0 However as far as the householder is concerned district heating systems have one huge advantage, they work with existing heating technology.<\/p>\n

So what\u2019s the problem?\u00a0 There have been increasing numbers of complaints on consumer programmes and advice columns about them.\u00a0 These fall into three areas.\u00a0 First, the energy costs for the householder are not cheap.\u00a0 Second, the householder is not allowed to fit any micro-generation such as solar hot water.\u00a0 Lastly they seem to unreliable and repairs are not being done in anything like the guaranteed timescale.<\/p>\n

These problems need sorting out fast.\u00a0 I doubt if the second issue would stand up in court and its only a matter of time before someone takes legal action over the last problem.\u00a0 One drawback is that these systems are exempt from the energy regulation system.\u00a0 However with all new developments in London requiring such systems to get planning permission the above complaints look set to grow until something is done.<\/p>\n

Neil<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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