District heating in the UK: A Technological Innovation Systems analysis

David Hawkey

doi:10.1016/j.eist.2012.10.005

District heating in the UK: A Technological Innovation Systems analysis

David Hawkey

School of Social and Political Science

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Abstract

District heating infrastructure could contribute to the UK's energy policy goals of decarbonisation, renewable energy deployment, tackling fuel poverty and ensuring energy security. However, while a number of schemes have been developed over the last decade, deployment of the technology remains limited. This paper adopts a Technological Innovation Systems framework to ask what the principal challenges are to significantly scaling up the deployment of DH in the UK. While district heating networks are inherently local infrastructures, they are positioned in regulatory and market contexts organised at larger spatial scales, making geography an important factor and coordination across spatial scales an important policy area for accelerated deployment.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	19-32
Journal	Environmental Innovation and Societal Transitions
Volume	5
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.eist.2012.10.005
Publication status	Published - Dec 2012

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CHP
District Heating
Technology Innovation Systems
Urban Sustainability

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Heat and the city
Webb, J. (Principal Investigator), McCrone, D. (Co-investigator), Russell, S. (Co-investigator) & Winskel, M. (Co-investigator)
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