What data actually exists about this industry, who typically holds it, at what granularity, and how obtainable it is. Public means openly published; purchasable is sold by a vendor; partnership needs a bilateral deal; exclusive is effectively locked up by one party.
| Data category | Who holds it | Granularity | Access |
|---|---|---|---|
| pricing | District heating operators (published tariffs), national energy regulators and price-comparison bodies (e.g. Danish Energy Regulatory… | Per network/operator per tariff year, per customer category (€/MWh, fixed +… | public |
| geospatial/movement | Municipalities and operators (network GIS), national heat-mapping projects (e.g. Hotmaps, Danish Heat Atlas, UK Heat Network Zoning), EU JRC | Per pipe segment / per building connection; raster heat-demand density maps | public |
| registry/licensing/permits | National regulators (e.g. UK Heat Network Regulation/Ofgem registration, Danish Utility Regulator), environmental permitting authorities… | Per operator / per network / per installation permit | public |
| employment & workforce | National statistics offices (SBS by NACE 35.30), sector associations (Euroheat & Power, AGFW), operators' HR systems | Annual employment by NACE class and region; per-company headcount | public |
| reviews & sentiment | Consumer bodies and ombudsmen (heat network complaints, e.g. UK Heat Trust), tenant associations, press/social media | Per complaint case; annual aggregates per supplier | public |
| energy consumption | Operators; national statistics offices and Eurostat (heat balances); IEA; building energy-performance registries | Per delivery point hourly/monthly (operator); network- or country-level annual… | public |
| financial filings | Company registries (annual accounts of utility subsidiaries), municipal budget disclosures, regulators' financial reporting for regulated… | Per legal entity per year; some per-network regulatory accounts | public |
| weather-dependent metrics | National meteorological services, operators' demand-forecasting teams, degree-day data vendors (Degree Days.net, BizEE), Copernicus/ERA5 | Daily heating/cooling degree days per station or grid cell; matched to daily… | public |
| waste & emissions | EU ETS verified emissions registry, E-PRTR/national pollutant registers, operators' own reporting; heat-supply emission-factor… | Per installation per year (CO2, NOx, dust); per network heat emission factor | public |
| production output | CHP and heat-only boiler operators, TSO/market operators, national statistics offices, ENTSO-E for co-produced electricity | Per plant hourly to annual heat output (GWh), fuel input split | public |
| transactional/sales | District heating and cooling utilities (municipal and private operators), their billing/CIS system vendors | Per customer per billing period (monthly/annual), per delivery point | partnership |
| inventory & supply chain | Operators and fuel suppliers (biomass, waste, gas, coal stocks), waste-to-energy plant operators | Per site fuel stock and deliveries, weekly/monthly tonnage | partnership |
| sensor/IoT | Operators via SCADA and smart heat meters; metering vendors (Kamstrup, Landis+Gyr, Diehl, Danfoss/Grundfos) and analytics platforms | Per substation / per meter, hourly or 15-minute (flow, supply/return… | partnership |
| incident/safety/claims | Operators, municipal emergency services, regulators (supply interruption reporting), insurers | Per incident (burst, outage) with duration and customers affected; annual… | partnership |
| customer demographics | Operators' customer databases combined with building registries (building type, floor area, construction year); municipal housing… | Per connected building / per customer segment (residential, commercial, public) | partnership |
| quality & compliance testing | Operators and metering authorities (meter verification/calibration), national metrology institutes, accredited water-chemistry labs | Per meter verification record; per sample water-quality test | partnership |
| maintenance & asset condition | Network operators, pipe-inspection and leak-detection service providers (e.g. thermographic survey firms), asset-management software vendors | Per asset / per pipe segment; work orders, leak events, age and material records | exclusive |
Compiled by the TriData research system from public registers, industry structure and regulatory reporting obligations; refreshed as the underlying catalogue grows. Look up the code itself in the NACE code finder.