Swedish utility Vattenfall and American energy services company Ameresco have won a 20-year concession to operate and expand the heat network in Britain's Bristol in a drive to cut emissions, ...

It will save 26 million tonnes of carbon emissions over a 20-year period, using zero- or low-emission sources of heat such as ground or water source heat pumps, or waste heat from industrial processes ...

Vattenfall, through the council’s innovative Bristol City Leap partnership, currently operates Bristol’s heat network, which at present covers a large section of the Old Market and Redcliffe.