Local information by city
Local information for businesses in major UK cities: who handles planning and the grid connection, which heat networks exist, and what the council publishes.
Commercial heat pumps in Birmingham: costs, grants and local rulesBirmingham already has district heating in the city centre and a planned network in Tyseley, so a commercial boiler replacement here can be a choice between connecting to shared heat and installing your own heat pump.Commercial heat pumps in Bradford: costs, grants and local rulesBradford is building a city-centre heat network driven by large air-source heat pumps, which changes the decision for older commercial buildings near its pipes.Commercial heat pumps in Bristol: costs, grants and local rulesWhat is specific to replacing a gas or oil boiler with a heat pump in a Bristol business premises: an expanding city heat network, a 2030 carbon-neutral ambition, the regional electricity network and local SME support.Commercial heat pumps in Cardiff: costs, grants and local rulesWhat is specific to replacing a gas or oil boiler with a heat pump in a Cardiff business premises: a new waste-heat network in Cardiff Bay, Welsh rather than English funding and planning rules, and the South Wales electricity network.Commercial heat pumps in Coventry: costs, grants and local rulesCoventry has a council-backed heat network running through the city centre and an expansion under way, so the first question for a boiler replacement near the ring road is whether to connect to Heatline or install your own heat pump.Commercial heat pumps in Doncaster: costs, grants and local rulesDoncaster has no city-scale heat network that could be verified, so a commercial boiler replacement here is usually a building-level decision: air-source, ground-source or hybrid.Commercial heat pumps in Leeds: costs, grants and local rulesLeeds is unusual among UK cities because a council-backed heat network already runs through the centre, so a commercial boiler replacement here can be a choice between connecting to that network and installing your own heat pump.Commercial heat pumps in Leicester: costs, grants and local rulesLeicester has four existing heat networks built around gas-fired combined heat and power, and government’s zoning pilot suggests the city centre, Beaumont and Braunstone as the places where more shared heat could come next.Commercial heat pumps in Liverpool: costs, grants and local rulesWhat is specific to replacing a gas or oil boiler with a heat pump in a Liverpool business premises: a working canal-source heat network, a proposed city-centre heat network zone, and the local electricity network.Commercial heat pumps in London: costs, grants and local rulesWhat is specific to replacing a gas or oil boiler with a heat pump in a London business premises: heat networks and zoning, planning and noise, the electricity network and funding.Commercial heat pumps in Manchester: costs, grants and local rulesWhat is specific to replacing a gas or oil boiler with a heat pump in a Manchester business premises: the city-centre heat network, regional zoning plans, the electricity network and local support.Commercial heat pumps in Nottingham: costs, grants and local rulesNottingham runs one of the largest district heating networks in the UK, so for a business in the centre the question is often connect or go it alone, and for everyone else it is a building-level heat pump.Commercial heat pumps in Sheffield: costs, grants and local rulesSheffield already has one of the largest heat networks in the UK, so for many city-centre buildings the real question is network connection versus a building-level heat pump.