Swedish Vattenfall and the American energy services company Ameresco have won a 20-year concession to decarbonize the British city and help it reach its carbon neutrality goals. As part of the Bristol City Leap decarbonisation project, Vattenfall Heat UK will acquire existing heat network assets and invest in new ones, which will serve the equivalent of around 90,000 homes, public sector facilities like hospitals, universities, and schools, industrial and commercial buildings throughout the Bristol community. Bristol city is planning to decarbonise its energy system by 2030 and the City Leap program aims to deliver lower energy costs, cleaner air, improved energy infrastructure and a boost to the local economy. “The announcement of the Bristol City Leap project is the first time that a UK city has embarked on such a comprehensive, transformative plan to decarbonise an entire city’s energy system by 2030. We applaud their leadership, innovation and steadfast focus on this plan,” says Britta MacIntosh, Senior Vice President of Ameresco. In the first five years, Vattenfall expects to invest over 200 million pounds ($262.30 million) in the heat networks, the company said. Working with local partners, Ameresco and Vattenfall also expect to deliver 424 million pounds in low-carbon energy infrastructure across heat networks, renewable energy, heat pumps, energy efficiency and electric vehicle charging saving 140,000 tonnes of carbon emissions and installing 182 megawatts of zero-carbon energy generation, Vattenfall said. Vattenfall has also plans to build a heat network in London. Read more: https://group.vattenfall.com/press-and-media/pressreleases/2022/vattenfall-and-ameresco-to-develop-extensive-low-and-zero-carbon-heat-network-in-the-city-of-bristol