What a day it was at the Heat and Decentralised Energy Conference 2022!
We've put together some of our favourite quotes from the day:Adriana Rodriguez Cobas, Interim Managing Director of Vattenfall UK:A transformational change is required to unlock the investment required to build clean, decentralised technologies like heat networks, which can tackle the climate crisis while delivering affordable energy.Chris Stark, CEO of the Climate Change Committee:We are in the midst of several crises - geopolitical, energy prices, energy security, climate and maybe the markets too. These are all linked and the remedy is similar - decarbonising the economy is a good approach to tackling them all and is the right path to follow.Joshua Buckland, Partner at Flint Global:The problem used to be trying to get people to care about energy and move it up the political agenda. Not any more. Now we can have really significant conversations about how to drive change, we must not miss this opportunity.James Close, Head of Climate Change at NatWest Group:The energy price and energy security crises offer a compelling business case for what we are all aspiring to - we now urgently need clear and consistent policy signals, driven by a supportive policy environment that works to reduce the cost of capital.Stuart Allison, Strategy Director of Vattenfall UK:The scale and pace of heat network ambition is increasing... these aren’t just single projects, more capital and more expertise means there are significant steps forward being taken.Joel Kenrick, Deputy Director of Policy at the UK Infrastructure Bank:Heat networks might be well proven in other countries but the scale of investment needed in the UK is something new on our shores - we aim to provide confidence and comfort to other investors to really get heat network infrastructure off the groundWe hope you all enjoyed the day, see you next year!