In this first Data Centre Deep Dive, we will be joined by the Engineering Consultancy firm Arup, who will be discussing the use of heat networks and district heating schemes to offtake heat in urban settings. 

Heat networks are growing in abundance in Europe as a way of bring ambient heat from industrial processes to residential and commercial buildings. Data centres are a source of heat with much said about their potential to integrate into the localities they call home. 

Alban Leiper, Associate in Urban Energy (Climate and Sustainability Services) at Arup will be leading this one hour session on the challenges and hurdles to establishing a successful heat network system. This will be followed by a Q&A session for those companies in attendance to learn more about what matters to them in the planning process. 

Luisa C. Cardani

Luisa C. Cardani

Head of Data Centres Programme, techUK

Luisa C. Cardani is the Head of the Data Centres Programme at techUK, aiming to provide a collective voice for UK operators and working with government to improve business environment for the data centres sector.

Prior to joining techUK, Luisa worked in the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport as the Head of International Data Protection, where she led on the development of elements of the UK's data protection and privacy policy. In her role, she was also the UK official representative for the EOCD Privacy Guidelines Informal Advisory Group.

She has held a number of position in government, including leading on cross-cutting data provisions in the EU-UK Trade and Cooperation Agreement, and in high priority cross-departmental projects when working in the Department of Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy.

She holds an M.Sc. from University College London's Department of Political Sciences.

Email:
[email protected]
Phone:
07587 210 799
Website:
www.techUK.org
LinkedIn:
https://www.linkedin.com/in/luisacardani

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Lucas Banach

Lucas Banach

Programme Assistant, Data Centres, Climate, Environment and Sustainability, Market Access, techUK

Lucas Banach is Programme Assistant at techUK, he works on a range of programmes including Data Centres; Climate, Environment & Sustainability; Market Access and Smart Infrastructure and Systems.

Before that Lucas who joined in 2008, held various roles in our organisation, which included his role as Office Executive, Groups and Concept Viability Administrator, and most recently he worked as Programme Executive for Public Sector. He has a postgraduate degree in International Relations from the Andrzej Frycz-Modrzewski Cracow University.

Email:
[email protected]
Phone:
020 7331 2006
Twitter:
@techUK
Website:
www.techuk.org
LinkedIn:
https://www.linkedin.com/in/lucas-banach-50139650

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