The Mayor of London’s growth company, OPDC has been awarded £36 million from the federal government’s Inexperienced Warmth Community Fund (GHNF) to harness waste warmth from the cooling of a number of knowledge centres.
The revolutionary undertaking is the primary of its type to safe GHNF assist and can present low carbon heating captured from knowledge centres into buildings. It varieties a part of a wider £65m award from the GHNF to 5 initiatives throughout the UK.
The community is positioned within the largest adopted Alternative Space in London spanning three London Boroughs. Outdated Oak West, OPDC’s deliberate new growth space, across the future Outdated Oak Widespread Station, will ship over 9,000 properties and 250,000m2 of business growth.
It is among the UK’s largest and most vital city brownfield regeneration initiatives which incorporates the Outdated Oak HS2 and Elizabeth Line interchange. The event could have wonderful connectivity for the 1000’s of latest and reasonably priced properties within the space and the brand new district heating community is vital to attaining a zero carbon and sustainable new city district.
The funding award of £36 million will assist the commercialisation and development of the district warmth community. This substantial scheme is predicted to ship 95GWh of warmth throughout 5 phases between 2026 and 2040. The Outdated Oak growth will create 22,000 new jobs.
The Mayor of London’s Native Vitality Accelerator (LEA) funding programme, which is co-funded by the European Regional Improvement Fund, has additionally supplied nearly £400,000 to fund technical experience to develop the OPDC-led warmth community. The LEA, which funds the event of unpolluted, domestically generated vitality initiatives, together with warmth networks, has simply been prolonged to March 2024 with £3 million extra funding present by the Mayor of London.
Knowledge centres provide a predictable provide of low grade warmth (between 20oC and 35oC) which is usually wasted with many centre operators operating inefficient vegetation to reject this warmth into the environment. Because of this scheme, the wasted warmth will as a substitute be distributed to quite a few vitality centres by way of a plastic “ambient” community, the place it’ll provide warmth pumps that then elevate the temperature to Low Temperature Sizzling Water “LTHW”. This can then be piped by way of a conventional metal community to a mix of latest and present residential buildings.
David Lunts, OPDC Chief Govt, commented: “Recycling the large quantities of wasted warmth from our native knowledge centres into warmth and vitality for native residents, a serious hospital and different customers is an thrilling and revolutionary instance of OPDC’s assist for the Mayor’s internet zero ambitions.”
“We’re excited to be main the best way in growing low carbon infrastructure, supporting present and future generations of Londoners in Outdated Oak and Park Royal to reside extra sustainably.”
Jo Streeten, Managing Director, Buildings + Locations – Europe and India, AECOM, stated: “This can be a incredible alternative for the brand new communities rising throughout the OPDC space to paved the way in how our cities can function extra sustainably, by utilizing the waste warmth sourced from knowledge centres.”
“An unlimited quantity of stakeholder collaboration and technical experience has gone into getting us thus far, however we now have a blueprint for an revolutionary ambient warmth community which we hope will present a template for future developments.”
Shirley Rodrigues, Deputy Mayor for Atmosphere and Vitality, stated: “The Mayor has an formidable goal for London to develop into a internet zero metropolis by 2030 and is supporting the creation of the OPDC warmth community with funding from the Mayor of London’s Native Vitality Accelerator (LEA), which is able to assist us to proceed constructing a greater, greener London for everybody.”
