Examination of Witnesses

Part of Energy Bill – in a Public Bill Committee at 3:59 pm on 17 January 2013.

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Peter Smith: Yes, it is a virtual power plant, but the interesting thing from the perspective of the UK is that the Chinese have used the fact of the energy saving potential of the non-domestic sector to pay for extensive measures in the domestic sector, particularly the replacement of electric heating in big tower blocks, where you can get scale and aggregation in the way you are inquiring about.

We also think, as we mentioned earlier, that DNOs should be particularly interested in projects such as replacing electric heating in tower blocks, for instance, as a way of reducing their future reinforcement costs.