A repository of relevant guidance documents, commissioned either by Department for Energy Security and Net Zero (formally BEIS) or the market, that are designed to provide heat network developers, and those involved in the heat network supply chain including technical, financial and legal advisers, with a firm grounding in the sector.

This is aimed primarily to help:

• develop technically and commercially optimised projects accompanied by robust business cases
• understand the potential costs of developing a heat network
• identify and mitigate risks
• identify potential revenue streams
• understanding legal and contractual aspects of developing a heat network
• unlock projects to wider investors

Content includes

• Heat network template financial model
• Calculating the full cost of energy used by buildings
• Standardised Due Diligence Set (SDDS) for heat networks
• Optimisation of heat networks: issues for project sponsors to consider
• Financing heat networks in the UK: guidebook
• Heat networks: procuring finance
• Infrastructure finance review: insights for district heat network investment in the UK
• Heat network detailed project development
• Stakeholder engagement in heat networks: a guide for project managers
• Heat network electricity revenues and licencing
• Assessment of the costs, performance and characteristics of UK heat networks