Written Question·Department for Energy Security and Net Zero·UIN 119843
Electricity: District Heating
Tabled: 11 March 2026
Answered: 16 March 2026
Named DayQuestion
Grahame Morris
Labour — Easington
To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, if he will make an assessment of the potential for former coal mining communities to benefit from the estimated £86.5 billion in electricity system savings from heat networks as identified in
Answer
Martin McCluskeyWe welcome the research by ADE: Heat Networks, and agree that appropriate deployment of heat networks has the potential to reduce future electricity system costs by billions as we accelerate to net zero. We set out our long-term strategy for heat networks...
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