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Does anyone have any questions for Robin? Put these into the chat and Robin and our other speakers will get to them during our Q&A

Hi: I'm Ben. Business Development for School of Geosciences at University of Edinburgh by day, and Community Council Chair by night for Cockenzie and Port Seton in East Lothian.

Thank you all!

Hello everyone! I’m Rory and I work in the Events team here at Nesta. I’ll be joining you in the chat today. To kick things off, where are we all joining from?

Amanda Grimm Thanks for highlighting. Beat me to it!

Robin - Is the four to one ratio for cost of electricity to gas based on a basic unit price without using a time based tariff? Is the ratio much closer when we look at a combination of solar/batteries and heat pumps? So should (if we can) be looking at a more combined solution?

Hi, I'm Amanda, joining from Musselburgh.

Thanks for taking my question, and for the great responses. I didn't mean to be anonymous - anyone want to discuss further please contact me on annemarte.bergseng@ed.ac.uk

Glasgow

Thanks for taking that question! Here's a feasibility study for a very exciting, county-wide heat network in East Lothian that would use multiple sources of waste heat and low-carbon heat, and would provide lower-cost, stable price heating to homes: https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:7350484207074177024/ They are aiming to make it a non-profit model as well (community-led or partnership with local authority).