Date of the report
June 2014
Author of the report
Sustainability West Midlands
Purpose of the report
Improvement and Efficiency West Midlands commissioned Sustainability West Midlands to produce a guide to the implementation steps to large scale district heating for use by local authorities in the region. The report provides a guide to the main steps that should be considered by local authorities when embarking on a district heating project and includes sections on:
- Benefits of district heating
- When to consider district heating
- Developing district heating networks
- Heat production, distribution and metering
- Heat Networks Funding Stream
- Procurement
- Good practice, overcoming barriers and lessons learned
- Local authority case studies from Birmingham City Council, Coventry City Council, Leicester City Council and Nottingham City Council
Links and contact information
The document is available to download here. For more information contact enquiries@swm.org.uk.