This renewable heating project was supported and funded by Stratford-upon-Avon District Council and the Heat Networks Delivery Unit (HNDU) of the Department of Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS).
Scope:
We appraised the viability and assessed the risks associated with several renewable district energy network opportunities in the Stratford-upon-Avon area. The proposed network comprised several large strategic sites designated for development, including the Canal Quarter development area and the Long Marsten Airfield Garden Village development.
Services:
We were commissioned to undertake heat-mapping and masterplanning studies for five areas. This was followed by a detailed feasibility study for the proposed renewable heating network in the Canal Quarter development in Stratford-upon-Avon town centre – a mixed development, largely consisting of residential.
This involved:
- Undertaking an energy demand and supply assessment to identify potential key energy demands and potentially useful heat supplies
- Identifying viable network and scheme options that considered heat pump and gas CHP technologies
- Providing recommendations to determine the best approach to deliver priority district energy network opportunities
- Identifying key stakeholders with a role to play in the delivery of district energy networks
- Identifying priority areas within strategic sites where district energy schemes may be viable
- Concept design, route planning and techno-economic modelling
Solution:
Two opportunities were identified. The preferred option consisted of a phased network served by a large canal source heat pump, with a self-supply arrangement for electricity from a small gas CHP engine to the heat pump. A potential parallel solution, also identified as economic, included a small gas CHP and a large high-temperature air source heat pump.
