The Committee on Climate Change, which advises Government on emissions targets, has made the headlines recently with its stark warning that unless UK homes urgently adopt more rigorous low-carbon standards, the UK will miss its 2050 carbon target. SSE Enterprise can help make it a reality. Jody Pittaway Sector Director – SSE Enterprise Heat…
If the term ‘Smart Cities’ feels like it’s been around for ages that’s probably because it has. A smart city is essentially a set of building blocks brought together to deliver additional value. The challenge is knowing which blocks to bring together, when, why, and how. Some local authorities are still struggling with the ‘why.’…
Richard Cave-Bigley, Director of Distributed Generation and Storage, gives his view on the future of Distributed Energy in the UK. I was fortunate to speak at Westminster this week [not on Brexit thankfully] at a Winter Reception hosted by The Association for Decentralised Energy [ADE]. It proved a welcome opportunity to focus on the positive…
Alex Fox, Commercial Project Development Manager, shares his view on commercialisation in the Heat Network Market for local authorities as well as a look to the upcoming UK District Energy Vanguards Network workshop which we are sponsoring. Project Development to date I’m less than six months in at SSE having come from Brighton & Hove City Council…
Ayub Pathan, Project Development Manager at SSE Enterprise Utilities, argues the Danish Curve may not be fit for the UK context and further reduction in peak loads are possible. Effective heat networks are already deployed in many regions of the world and deliver large quantities of heat, particularly to high density urban areas of high…
Following the CMA’s recent announcement recommending regulation of the heat network market, Jody Pittaway, Sector Director of Heat Networks, looks at why this is a welcome development for the industry. Most of us have the felt the heat of this endlessly warm summer. So you’d be forgiven for missing the landmark announcement from…
Anyone plugged into the green energy agenda is likely to be on-board with the Government’s Road to Zero strategy. But does it really go far enough to prompt genuine action? At SSE Enterprise, our goal is to help people ditch traditional polluting methods of travel by providing transport companies with the right EV…
Read our prospectus on partnership solutions with public sector organisations here With the Heat Networks Investment Project (HNIP) funding to be released in the Autumn, the heat network market is hopefully going to be an even livelier place. Having said that, there’s a lot of money to invest and we need to make sure that…
Heat represents just under half of the energy we use and around 20% of the nation’s carbon emissions generated by domestic heating, taking action to decarbonise heat sources is arguably one of the biggest challenges facing UK energy policymakers over the next few decades. Heat Networks, which supply heat from a central heat…
Neil Kirkby, Managing Director of SSE Enterprise, shares his view on the EV market after being asked to join the Mayor of London’s new taskforce. SSE has long been one of the UK’s largest providers of renewable energy, and an ongoing advocate of sustainability, so I was delighted that Enterprise’s contribution to a greener future…