The Mayor of London’s improvement 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 information centres.
The progressive challenge is the primary of its form to safe GHNF help and can present low carbon heating captured from information centres into buildings. It kinds a part of a wider £65m award from the GHNF to 5 tasks throughout the UK.
The community is situated within the largest adopted Alternative Space in London spanning three London Boroughs. Outdated Oak West, OPDC’s deliberate new improvement space, across the future Outdated Oak Widespread Station, will ship over 9,000 properties and 250,000m2 of economic improvement.
It is likely one of the UK’s largest and most necessary city brownfield regeneration tasks which incorporates the Outdated Oak HS2 and Elizabeth Line interchange. The event may have glorious connectivity for the 1000’s of recent and inexpensive 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 help 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 The Outdated Oak improvement will create 22,000 new jobs.
The Mayor of London’s Native Power Accelerator (LEA) funding programme, which is co-funded by the European Regional Improvement Fund, has additionally offered virtually £400,000 to fund technical experience to develop the OPDC-led warmth community. The LEA, which funds the event of unpolluted, regionally generated vitality tasks, together with warmth networks, has simply been prolonged to March 2024 with £3 million further funding present by the Mayor of London.
Information centres provide a predictable provide of low grade warmth (between 20oC and 35oC) which is commonly wasted with many centre operators working inefficient vegetation to reject this warmth into the ambiance. Because of this scheme, the wasted warmth will as a substitute be distributed to quite a lot of vitality centres by way of a plastic “ambient” community, the place it can provide warmth pumps that then elevate the temperature to Low Temperature Scorching Water “LTHW”. It will then be piped by way of a conventional metal community to a mix of recent and present residential buildings.
David Lunts, OPDC Chief Government, commented: “Recycling the large quantities of wasted warmth from our native information centres into warmth and vitality for native residents, a significant hospital and different customers is an thrilling and progressive instance of OPDC’s help for the Mayor’s internet zero ambitions.”
“We’re excited to be main the way in which in creating low carbon infrastructure, supporting present and future generations of Londoners in Outdated Oak and Park Royal to stay extra sustainably.”
Jo Streeten, Managing Director, Buildings + Locations – Europe and India, AECOM, stated: “It is a unbelievable alternative for the brand new communities rising inside the OPDC space to prepared the ground in how our cities can function extra sustainably, by utilizing the waste warmth sourced from information centres.”
“An unlimited quantity of stakeholder collaboration and technical experience has gone into getting us up to now, however we now have a blueprint for an progressive ambient warmth community which we hope will present a template for future developments.”
Shirley Rodrigues, Deputy Mayor for Atmosphere and Power, stated: “The Mayor has an bold 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 Power Accelerator (LEA), which can assist us to proceed constructing a greater, greener London for everybody.”
