UK awards GBP 91m to heat network projects

The UK government today awarded GBP 91 million (USD 112m/EUR 103m) to seven low-carbon heat network projects, including the UK’s first deep geothermal heat network at Langarth Garden Village in Cornwall.

The funding comes from the Green Heat Network Fund (GHNF), a GBP-288-million scheme in England expected to run until 2025.

The Langarth project, led by Cornwall Council, will extract heat from granite rocks more than 5,000 metres (16,404 ft) beneath the United Downs Industrial Site in Cornwall and provide it to 3,800 local homes and public facilities. It will receive GBP 22 million from the government.

Other projects include an air source heat pump heat network in Bradford, a project by East Riding of Yorkshire Council that will use waste heat from a manufacturing plant, and the expansion of a heat network in East London.

“These innovative projects will not only benefit the communities they serve, by reducing emissions and providing low-cost heating that helps to drive down energy bills, but also support the nation’s push for greater energy security and independence,” said Lord Callanan, Minister for Energy Efficiency and Green Finance.

(GBP 1 = USD 1.259/EUR 1.152)

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