Leicester heat network zone

Leicester has one of the older district energy systems among the pilot places, with networks in the city centre and the north of the city run under a 25-year contract. The June 2025 report builds the main zones around them. We have found no zone partner procurement.

1. September 2024

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   Listed among the 28 places in the government's heat network zoning pilot, which published its first outputs in September 2024.

   Source: Heat networks zoning pilot (GOV.UK)

The strategic zones are the City Centre, Beaumont and Braunstone.

Candidate areas come from government-commissioned studies and council work. They are not legal boundaries. A zone’s boundary is fixed only when it is designated under the zoning regulations.

We have found no appointed or bidding developer for Leicester.

No statutory zone developer can be appointed until a zone is designated. Partners appointed by councils before then are listed as development or delivery partners.

• City Centre, Leicester North, Beatty Avenue and Aikman Avenue networks · Leicester District Energy Company (Bring Energy)

  Source: Heat network zone opportunity report: Leicester (by Arcadis)

• 2 Jun 2025Remaining 13 zone opportunity reports published
• 23 Sep 2024First zoning pilot outputs: heat network zone maps

1. Heat networks zoning pilot (updated 25 November 2025) — Department for Energy Security and Net Zero, 25 November 2025
2. Heat network zone opportunity report: Leicester (by Arcadis) — Department for Energy Security and Net Zero, 2 June 2025

Record last checked 8 November 2026.