District Heating - Preliminary Market Consultation - Routing of heating pipe across and/or adjacent to the River Wandle

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<p style="font-weight: 400">THIS IS NOT A CALL FOR COMPETITION</p> <p style="font-weight: 400">LBS has already developed a district heat network, known as the Sutton Decentralised Energy Network (“SDEN”), through its wholly-owned ESCO subsidiary, Sutton Decentralised Energy Network Limited (“LBS-ESCO”).</p> <p style="font-weight: 400">Through this consultation exercise The LBS-ESCO are seeking Organisations that have experience or knowledge of installing infrastructure across rivers to take part in this initial consultation process.</p> <p style="font-weight: 400">By way of useful background information, works completed in 2021 connected existing landfill gas (LFG) powered CHP engines to the New Mill Quarter development via district heating pipework; the pipework was sized to allow for future extension of the district heating network. In preparation for further extensions, the pipework has the capability to connect to a new Energy from Waste (EfW) plant on the same site as the LFG engines.</p> <p style="font-weight: 400">The EfW plant is operational, but a connection has not yet been made as the heat supplied by the LFG engines is sufficient for the currently connected loads. Extension of the network to the existing Lavenders housing site (the “Lavenders Extension Project”) is a site specific connection to an existing heat network that is now being taken forward by the LBS-ESCO.</p> <p style="font-weight: 400">The LBS-ESCO would like to engage with the market around specific challenges which need to be resolved in a cost-effective manner to make the project viable. The LBS-ESCO therefore need to understand the market’s views on the technical solutions available, the potential costs, and the risks associated with a pipe extension to the Lavenders Estate.</p> <p style="font-weight: 400">If you are interested in taking part in this preliminary market consultation please express your interest and complete the brief questionnaire.</p> <p style="font-weight: 400">Any resulting tender exercise will be published on the Portal for any suppliers to decide to participate, whether they took part in this consultation or not.</p> Keywords: Energy, Heating, utilities, District Heating, civil works