Connecting
to Leeds PIPES

Heat from the Leeds PIPES heat network is low carbon, emitting just 0.037kg of CO2e per kWh—or a sixth of the carbon intensity of using fossil fuel gas. Connecting to our network is a demonstrable way of supporting your organisation’s carbon reduction goals, net zero transition plan, or ESG targets. You’ll also be helping to improve local air quality because district heating emits no pollution at the point of use.

Connecting to our network will support your Leeds planning application by supporting compliance with current local planning policy EN1 (Carbon Reduction), EN2 (Sustainable Construction) and EN4 (District Heating).

Unlike methane gas heating solutions, we’re less impacted by global prices, so you can have more confidence planning future energy costs. We index our heat price to be competitive against alternative solutions (including gas boilers or electric heat pumps) now and into the future.

Heat networks are becoming a regulated market, meaning that Leeds PIPES customers will benefit from additional protections. We’re already compliant with all of the regulations expected to be introduced by OFGEM.

Connecting to Leeds PIPES heat network can reduce the capital and operational expenditure required for your development or building, compared to alternative heating technologies. Using district heating can reduce your requirements for electrical grid capacity and reduce or eliminate your requirements for methane gas. There’s no need to buy or maintain a local standby boiler or heat pump as Leeds PIPES offers a reliable, instant, and near limitless supply.

We designed the Leeds PIPES network with resilience in mind. A second energy centre houses back-up boilers that can be relied on should the network ever require top-up or back-up heat. We’ve also installed connection points along the network and at each connected building to enable temporary boilers to provide heat as a fail-safe backup.

Our trained district heating engineers are based locally and are on-call 24/7 to respond to any issues that you ever experience within hours, any day of the year. Vital Energi will have ­responsibility to operate, maintain, and provide lifecycle replacements for the heat substation in your plantroom for the length of your Heat Agreement—giving your building management peace of mind.