Chair’s Summary
Alister briefly summed up his key takeaways from the Roundtable contributions and thanked everyone for coming, and those who had made presentations and shared insights.
His conclusions:
- Heat networks won’t and can’t be a solution everywhere.
- Pricing is a particular issue for heat networks from a fuel poverty perspective.
- Heat networks should not deepen fuel poverty – this is a challenge and improving fuel poverty rates, through heat network development, will be an even bigger one.
- There’s an accountability question when it comes to fuel poverty within the heat network landscape. How is fuel poverty statement compliance to be assured and what sanctions will apply if these are not delivered.
- The heat network policy foundations seem to be strong, but things become much harder as the move from policy to delivery happens.