Engineers in the energy distribution and heating industry are working on a daunting but exciting challenge that recently received a government boost.About half of all energy consumed is used to generate heat and hot water and, to achieve government carbon targets to comply with the UK's Paris Agreement obligations, the carbon intensity of this energy needs to be reduced by 90 percent by2050. As a vast amount of waste heat produced by sources like processingplants, data centres and even sewageis going up the chimney, literally, it islittle surprise that the UK's energyand heat policy is now focused oncapturing this heat to distribute it toconsumers, cutting CO_2 emissionsand lowering the amount of energyrequired to heat water.
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