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Overview

Northumberland County Council have commissioned legal and commercial advisors to help us develop a procurement approach that seeks to use Local Authority heat loads (primarily leisure centres) as “anchor customers” to stimulate private sector investment in heat networks, where commercially viable, in up to 8 towns across the county.   

Within the 90-minute session we will be covering the opportunities across the eight towns within the county, the work done to date to bring heat networks forward within Northumberland, and the approach Northumberland County Council are taking. We will also be hearing an update from the ongoing regional work and hopefully an update on heat network zoning that is coming through national government.  

There will be time for a short workshop looking at the wider benefits and local opportunities within the delivery of heat network infrastructure and time for networking also.

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Speakers

Hannah Davison
Hannah Davison
Senior Climate Change and Sustainability Manager
Northumberland County Council
Working across a range of projects within Northumberland, focused primarily on capital schemes from individual building decarbonisation through installation of solar PV and heat pump systems to town scale decarbonisation through heat networks. Also working on challenges such as increasing resilience and sustainability within the rural economy, particularly within the agricultural sector.
Leanne Wilson
Leanne Wilson
Climate Change Team Manager
Northumberland County Council
Dr Leanne Wilson joined Northumberland County Council as the Climate Change Team Manager in 2024. She has over 20 years experience in working on international, national and regional climate change and energy programmes. She has worked collaboratively across the North East to develop programmes of low carbon investment and capacity building, including support for the development of the significant regional pipeline of heat networks.
Elizabeth Lunn
Elizabeth Lunn
Programme Manager
North East and Yorkshire Net Zero Hub/ North East Combined Authority
Lizzie works with public sector organisations, their stakeholders and communities to develop fundable net zero projects and to deliver local net zero strategy in the North East. Lizzie has particular interest in decarbonisation of heat, offshore wind and low carbon supply chain and skill development.
Lizzie has over ten years’ experience working in the energy sector, having previously worked in energy policy and public affairs for Energy Networks Association (ENA) and as a Renewables Analyst for the Energy Industries Council (EIC).
Simon Carman
Simon Carman
Director
Asteros Advisers
Simon Carman is a co founder of Asteros Advisers and a qualified accountant and member of the Chartered Institute of Public Finance Accountants (CIPFA).
He is currently Asteros' lead on the development of District Heating schemes within the UK and has previously supported the successful delivery of a number of Public Private Partnership (PPP) and Joint Venture infrastructure projects.
Simon has provided financial, commercial and procurement advice to public sector clients on a number of significant infrastructure projects, his main areas of specialism include public / private partnering, public sector procurement, strategic partnering, business cases, public sector accounting, costing and training delivery.

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