DESNZ Procurement – Unlocking Waste Heat: Guidance for Heat Networks & Heat Sources

Key information

Urgency: high
Company Name: DESNZ
Contact Name: Fiona Steinitz
Contact Email: fiona.steinitz@energysecurity.gov.uk
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Expires: 22/01/2025

Details

The aim of this project is to develop support and guidance to enable heat sources to join and sell waste heat to heat networks. The guidance will support England and Scotland’s respective policies on heat networks. For more detail on the policy, please see the ‘Heat Source’ chapter of the Zoning Consultation (England only): https://www.gov.uk/government/consultations/proposals-for-heat-network-zoning-2023 . To ensure that both England and Scotland’s heat networks legislation promotes a greater utilisation of recoverable heat sources, government intends to support negotiations between heat network owners, government bodies, and the owners of heat sources with various pieces of guidance. This project will produce this guidance. Waste heat cost document: A waste heat cost document which will enable heat source owners, heat network owners and relevant authorities to see the types of costs associated with selling heat by sector, capex, opex and investments/connection costs for connection of their heat sources to heat networks. The intention is that this will inform negotiations between heat source owners and heat network owners and will ultimately provide guidance where there is a requirement for heat sources to connect and to agree heat prices in England and Scotland. Negotiation guidance document: This guidance will help prepare network owners and heat source owners for negotiations. This will support heat network owners and heat source owners in their negotiations to buy/sell heat by raising awareness of the information both parties need. Technical guidance on engineering and design of connecting heat sources to heat networks: this document will outline the different design considerations and technologies of heat sources that should be considered when connecting a range of different heat sources to a heat network. Regulatory process map: this document will outline the full set of regulatory processes/applications a heat network would need to go through in order to recover heat from a range of commercial or industrial processes, for example any environmental permits (in both England and Scotland). For further details please see the tender under the Research and Insights DPS framework. The deadline to submit a bid is 22nd January 2025.