District heating
Consultation on Distribution Futures Energy Scenarios
Author / Creator: Common Weal
Media type: Policy Paper
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The use of electric vehicles is over-estimated due to changing work patterns. Private vehicles should be discouraged from city centres to concentrate on public transport and active travel. District Heating Systems offer better outcomes with less strain on the electrical grid than heat pumps. New buildings need to be constructed to passive energy standards.
Carbon-Free, Povetery-Free: Heating Options for Rural Scotland
Author / Creator: Ron Mould, Craig Dalzell, Jonathan Shafi
Media type: Policy Paper
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Fuel poverty is not only worse in rural Scotland than in urban Scotland, it also has different characteristics. Fuel poverty plays a much larger role in rural poverty than in urban poverty. By far the biggest driver of this fuel poverty is not being on the gas grid.
Just Warmth: Developing equitable and Sustainable District Heating Systems in Scotland
Author / Creator: Keith Baker, Ron Mould
Media type: Policy Paper
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Scotland heats the majority of its homes and buildings in inefficient and deleterious efforts to become a net zero-carbon nation. Much more effective than individual boilers would be a system of District Heating Systems (DHS). These DHS networks could be supplied with a variety of sources such as biomass, solar thermal or industrial waste heat.