A project to regenerate Leeds’ South Bank has won the lion’s share of the latest allocation from the government’s Green Heat Network Fund.
The fund’s administrator, Triple Point, has announced that five heat networks connecting to major developments will share £57m. The biggest award is £24.5m for an extension to the LeedsPIPES network, which is powered by local waste heat. This will allow the connection of an additional 8,000 homes and buildings in the South Bank regeneration project.
Three projects across London will receive £20.2m to connect 8,500 new homes and businesses across new developments to low carbon heat networks powered by air and ground source heat pumps. And £12.6m is going to Barnsley to support the commercialisation and construction of a multi-source heat pump network across a range of businesses and public sector buildings.
The project also plans to explore the capture of waste heat from a nearby industrial manufacturing plant as the network expands and densifies.
The five projects will provide low carbon heat to 17,000 new homes, commercial spaces, and public buildings, saving more than save 385,000 tonnes of CO2.
