Transforming Heating and Cooling creates jobs, new businesses - Energy Post

The UK has had great success in reducing emissions: down 43% overall since 1990. But, like most places, Heating and Cooling is struggling. Mark Woodward, of The Smart City Alliance and Nordic Heat, sets out a plan for progress, and includes lessons from Europe. The focus is on four core energy efficiency activities: reduce, recover, store and distribute. He explains how this also opens up new business models: in one town in Sweden chemicals firm Kemira provides close to 25% of the heat demand in the city by selling its excess heat back to the grid, so a cost becomes a revenue. And blue-sky thinking could turn old coal mines into below-ground storage facilities.