SmartSheffield #18 - Richard Bent: Sheffield's low carbon district heating network

Richard is a commercial manager for Veolia in Sheffield, who built and operate the city's Energy Recovery Facility (ERF), which, as Sheffielders will know, is situated just off Park Roundabout where the Parkway leaves the city centre and heads out towards Rotherham. Veolia won the contract to collect and manage Sheffield’s waste in 2001, and the ERF was constructed by Veolia as part of that contract, initially for the production of energy via a steam turbine - around 21MW which is sold to the national grid, and is also connected to Sheffield’s District Heating Network which distributes heat across Sheffield City Centre (around 42MW in the Winter, although the total capacity of the system is 60MW).

For more information, please see Veolia's Sheffield Heat Network website.

These slides were presented at SmartSheffield#18 on May 17th 2021 - please see the Event Website for a full video of the talk.

Transcript

1. Sheffield Energy Recovery and District Energy A low carbon solution
2. Veolia in Sheffield 21MW Electricity generated to the National Grid 42MW Heat generated into the District Energy Network 2001 Veolia awarded waste management contract
3. Key District Energy Information Majority built in the 1990’s Connections 102 Commercial 26 Residential Est. 1970’s 45 km of pipe Low carbon energy created from Sheffield’s domestic waste 235,000 tonnes
4. 2020 99.92% Network Customer Availability 2019 99.79% 2018 99.93% Applied Science Boiler House ERF & Bernard Rd Boiler House ParkHill Boiler House Sheffield Town Hall
5. The Benefits • Lower Carbon Emissions • Reduced Operating and Maintenance Costs • Reliability and Resilience • Tariff Flexibility • Isolation from The Gas Price Market • Circular Economy Benefits • Space Savings • Safety • No Emissions at Point of use
6. District Energy Data Half hourly data from all Heat Meters Next step live data Optimisation / Performance / Capacity
7. Thank You