The heating challenge Heating accounts for over a third of the nation’s carbon emissions across all sectors and is a key decarbonisation challenge. Heat Networks play a major role in the government’s zero carbon strategy, providing “no regrets” infrastructure in urban environments making use of waste and/or recoverable heating and cooling, sometimes in combination with heat pumps, to deliver ever lower carbon heat and cooling. How SSE Energy Solutions can help SSE has a portfolio of low carbon heat networks serving residential and commercial customers across the country including electrified heat networks fed by a mix of heat pumps and CHP. We have a strong focus on innovation and a culture of continuous improvement across design, technology, commercial and customer service models. Being technology and manufacturer agnostic allows us to select the right technology choice for each project. Our flexible commercial models, developed over a decade of experience in the UK, mean we offer long term asset ownership and investment for heat and cooling networks. With optimal design, delivery and commissioning our clients and end users are supported by round the clock industry leading customer care.
Our focus is to provide low carbon, affordable heating and cooling. As we can provide capital investment into projects, SSE’s balance sheet strength and brand credentials make it an ideal long-term partner to our clients. We are a founder member of Heat Trust, the independent heat customer protection scheme. As members of the scheme, we are independently audited and our performance is captured by the necessary feedback loops needed to maintain and improve standards We are closely involved in a number of government advisory groups helping to design the forthcoming regulatory regime for heat networks. This ideally places us to help our clients ensure their system and operational design is “future proofed” for formal regulation when it arrives. Our expertise, experience, investment approach and customer service makes SSE Energy Solutions an ideal heating and cooling partner, bringing stability that reduces risk for clients and provides long-lasting benefits for network customers. With wide ranging experience across the distributed energy infrastructure spectrum, we can ensure that to ensure that your heat/cooling network benefits from an integrated approach to generation, storage and supply of energy. So get in touch today so see how we can help you.
How a public/private partnership works Successful partnerships bring together the skills and experience from all parties into a single and effective delivery mechanism.
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PROJECT DELIVERY
PLANNING POWERS
FULLFILLING POLICY/MASTERPLAN
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RELATIONSHIP WITH END USERS
ENSURING PROJECT PERFORMANCE
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