Heat network operator Vattenfall has said it wants its Bristol heat network to be used for over half of all Bristolians living, working and learning in the city by y 2050.
The plan comes as construction is expected to begin later this year on an extension of the heat network into the city centre. In the last year the Welcome Building, a commercial building, has connected to the heat network, and said it had agreed to connect Soapworks, a new urban development. Vattenfall has applied for planning permission for the Bath Road Energy Centre – a large air-source heat pump facility near Bristol Temple Meads designed to generate low carbon heat for over seven thousand more buildings. 
The year has also seen network extended to historic pipework in Redcliffe and new heat network pipe routes in Bedminster (via Windmill Hill City Farm) and Temple (as part of the development of Bristol Temple Quarter). Preparations have also begun to construct a new heat network area in the city centre called the Frome heat network area, from the Frome Gateway Regeneration area to Harbourside.