Heat Network Locations (Existing and Planned) - Scotland
The Scotland Heat Map provides the locations of existing and planned heat networks. Both communal and district heat networks are included. Data about each network includes, where available, heat capacity size category, network name, status (either ‘operational’ or ‘in planning’) and the main technology used (for example, ‘boiler’). There is only one point location for each network, the data does not show all connected properties or pipe layouts. Networks can serve domestic properties, non-domestic properties or a mixture of the two. Heat networks have the potential to reduce carbon emissions from heating buildings. Alongside other heat map datasets, information on existing and planned networks is used to identify further opportunities to reduce carbon emissions. For example, by connecting more buildings to an existing network or by replacing the energy source with a nearby lower carbon alternative. Data on heat networks comes from two sources. These are: the UK Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy’s Heat Networks (Metering and Billing) Regulations (HMBR) dataset and Zero Waste Scotland’s Low Carbon Heat Database (LCHD). The most recent data available is up to end December 2018 for HMBR and June 2020 for the LCHD. More information can be found in the documentation available on the Scottish Government website: https://www.gov.scot/publications/scotland-heat-map-documents/
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The Heat Networks – Existing and Planned dataset is comprised of data from two sources: - HMBR - Heat Network Metering and Billing Regulations database - LCHD - Low Carbon Heat Database The HMBR contains 1,080 records compared to 175 in the LCHD (135 of which are operational). The HMBR is the primary data source used for analysis of district and communal heat networks, as it is more detailed and has much greater coverage than the LCHD. Networks that fall within the scope of the Heat Network (Metering and Billing) Regulations 2014 are required to notify the UK Government department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS), through the Office for Product Standards and Safety (OPSS), every four years. More information on the scope of the regulations and further details on the notification process is available here. https://www.gov.uk/guidance/heat-networks. The regulations define district heat networks as follows: • The minimum criteria for an installation to be considered a district heat network are 2 buildings being supplied with heat and at least 1 final customer. The heat source can be located inside one of the buildings that makes up the district heat network or in an external energy centre. Communal heat networks are defined as follows: • All communal heating serves only one building. The minimum size for communal heating is 2 final customers. Where a remote source is supplying a single building with multiple occupants this is also communal heating. The data provided by BEIS (OPSS) is classed as experimental statistics. The database is currently undergoing a restructuring process. The HMBR data used in the Scotland Heat Map is notifications received up to 31st December 2018. It is not possible to determine the current operational status of these networks. This is because networks are required to notify BEIS when they first begin selling heat and then every four years afterwards. Therefore it is possible that some may no longer be operational. In the absence of any other source of information, we have made the assumption that all networks included in the HMBR dataset are operational. Low Carbon Heat Database The LCHD is managed by Zero Waste Scotland (ZWS) and was formerly referred to as the Heat Network Partnership (HNP) database, The HNP database recorded projects that were given support by HNP members (ZWS, Scottish Government, Energy Savings Trust, Scottish Futures Trust, Scottish Enterprise). In late 2018/early 2019 ZWS began to update the HNP database (which was last updated in 2015). The database was also reformatted to better to better reflect the information required by stakeholders. ZWS will continue to add networks they become aware of to it. Unlike the HMBR dataset, the LCHD contains information on networks that are in development or under construction. The mapped data shows the point location of heat networks, both district and communal, that are either operational or in various stages of development. Networks are assigned xy coordinates in two different ways, depending on whether a valid unique property reference number (UPRN) is available. The UPRN can be for the heat source, the energy centre, the main heat load on the network or another building on the network. When a UPRN is available, it can be used to obtain coordinates from Ordnance Survey’s Addressbase Plus product. In cases where a UPRN is not available but postcode information is, xy coordinates are assigned using the grid reference for the postcode centroid. These are available as part of the Scottish Postcode Directory (SPD) published by National Records of Scotland. Therefore the heat network point data may not necessarily represent the exact geographical location, though it still indicates that there is a heat network within the postcode unit area. There is some overlap between the two sources of heat network data. Therefore, it was necessary to identify networks which appeared in both and remove duplicates. Whilst every attempt has been made to do this, incomplete address information (including incomplete UPRN data) means that some may still be present. The HMBR database includes more detailed information than the LCHD and covers cooling through heat networks (which the LCHD doesn’t). Therefore, where a network exists in both sources, the HMBR record was used.
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