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The location of potential sources of waste heat energy is provided as part of the Scotland Heat Map. Alongside data on heat demand, this is used to identify opportunities to reduce carbon emissions from heat in buildings, either by connecting supply and demand in a more efficient manner or by using lower carbon alternatives to existing supply. It identifies sites where heat energy that may otherwise be wasted could potentially be put to use for heating purposes. Further investigation would be required to determine if this is possible. Some of the sites included may already be providing waste heat energy and others may be in various stages of the planning system.
The Scotland Heat Map is produced by the Scottish Government. Data on potential energy supply comes from two sources: the ClimateXchange (CXC) 2020 ‘Potential sources of waste heat for heat networks in Scotland’ research project and data on locations of cooling towers collected from Scottish Local Authorities in 2013. Sites taken from the CXC research project have been located using their postcode centroid. Cooling towers have been located using address information provided by LAs. In some cases this may also mean location is based on postcode centroid. The combination of these two datasets does not represent all potential sources of waste heat energy in Scotland. In addition, there may be overlap between the datasets.
More information can be found in the documentation available on the Scottish Government website: https://www.gov.scot/publications/scotland-heat-map-documents/.
The final report for the CXC ‘Potential sources of waste heat for heat networks in Scotland’ project is available on the CXC website: https://www.climatexchange.org.uk/media/4481/waste-heat-sources-for-heat-networks-scotland-final-nov-20.pdf.
The Scotland Heat Map provides estimates of annual heat demand for almost 3 million properties in Scotland. Demand is given in kilowatt-hours per year (kWh/yr). Property level estimates can be combined to give values for various geographies. Both domestic and non-domestic properties are included. This points dataset gives estimated heat demand of properties located using their unique property reference number (UPRN), alongside other related information. Heat demand is calculated by combining data from a number of sources, ensuring that the most appropriate data available is used for each property. The data can be used by local authorities and others to identify or inform opportunities for low carbon heat projects such as district heat networks. The Scotland Heat Map is produced by the Scottish Government. More information can be found in the documentation available on the Scottish Government website: https://www.gov.scot/publications/scotland-heat-map-documents/.
The Scotland Heat Map provides estimates of annual heat demand for almost 3 million properties in Scotland. Demand is given in kilowatt-hours per year (kWh/yr). Property level estimates can be combined to give values for various geographies. Both domestic and non-domestic properties are included. This points dataset gives estimated heat demand of properties located using their unique property reference number (UPRN), alongside other related information. Heat demand is calculated by combining data from a number of sources, ensuring that the most appropriate data available is used for each property. The data can be used by local authorities and others to identify or inform opportunities for low carbon heat projects such as district heat networks. The Scotland Heat Map is produced by the Scottish Government. More information can be found in the documentation available on the Scottish Government website: https://www.gov.scot/publications/scotland-heat-map-documents/.
The Scotland Heat Map provides estimates of annual heat demand for almost 3 million properties in Scotland. Demand is given in kilowatt-hours per year (kWh/yr). Property level estimates can be combined to give values for various geographies. Both domestic and non-domestic properties are included. This points dataset gives estimated heat demand of properties located using their unique property reference number (UPRN), alongside other related information. Heat demand is calculated by combining data from a number of sources, ensuring that the most appropriate data available is used for each property. The data can be used by local authorities and others to identify or inform opportunities for low carbon heat projects such as district heat networks. The Scotland Heat Map is produced by the Scottish Government. More information can be found in the documentation available on the Scottish Government website: https://www.gov.scot/publications/scotland-heat-map-documents/.
The location of existing and planned sources of energy, both electricity and heat, is provided as part of the Scotland Heat Map. Alongside data on heat demand, this is used to identify opportunities to reduce carbon emissions from heat in buildings, either by connecting supply and demand in a more efficient manner or by using lower carbon alternatives to existing supply. Data on each energy supply point includes, where available, capacity size category, main technology used (e.g., ‘wind’, ‘biomass’) and planning status (e.g., ‘operational’, ‘in development’). This dataset is included in the Scotland Heat Map for the first time in 2023. It replaces the data on existing and planned energy supply in earlier versions of the heat map.
The Scotland Heat Map is produced by the Scottish Government. Data on existing and planned energy supply comes three sources. Two are UK Government sources: the Renewable Energy Planning Database (REPD) and the Major Power Producers (MPP) dataset. The third is the Energy Saving Trust’s (EST’s) Renewable Heat Database (RHD). Records from the MPP dataset have only been included where they have a fuel type of fossil fuel or nuclear, or where they have a renewable fuel type but their installed capacity is less than 1 MW. This is to avoid overlap with the REPD as much as possible. Records from the RHD have only been included where they output heat only, their installed capacity is 1 MW or higher and they can be shared. The 2020 quarter 4 extract of REPD has been used. MPP data was provided by the UK Government in late 2020. The RHD provides installation information as at end December 2021.
More information can be found in the documentation available on the Scottish Government website: https://www.gov.scot/publications/scotland-heat-map-documents/.