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Search the Public Notice PortalHeat from computer data centres will be used to keep 9,000 homes and business - as well as Central Middlesex Hospital - warm.
The new low carbon district heat network has been given the green light to draw waste heat from local data centres to provide low-cost energy for the massive Old Oak and Park Royal development, as well as existing buildings like the hospital.
A deal has been announced by the Old Oak development corporation with the Hemiko energy company to build and operate the network.
“This means greener and cheaper energy for thousands of homes,” the developer's chief executive David Lunts promises. “This heat network is a cleaner and more sustainable energy supply.”
The first phase is expected to be up and running by 2028 with 95 gigawatts of heat a year, equal to boiling a billion kettles, then expanded for the whole Old Oak and Park Royal regeneration zone, where there are plans for 25,000 new homes over the next 20 years.
The area has been marked as one of Britain’s first heat network zones, drawn up by Downing Street for low-cost heating with low carbon emissions.
The Government is pitching in £36 million to the scheme, with another £1.7m from the GLA’s Green Finance programme for the technical work for the business case. The energy company itself is putting up £63 million to begin with, growing to £600 million by 2040.
The plans also include three million square feet of commercial, retail and leisure development such as parks and green spaces.
Deputy Mayor of London Mete Coban said: “This is exactly what we need for a greener London. Capturing waste heat from data centres cuts emissions while also reducing energy costs.”
There are already neighbourhood district heating schemes springing up across London.
Warm air from the Underground is being reused to fuel Islington’s district heating scheme that began five years ago for offices, leisure centres and 1,350 homes. Heat from the Northern Line is extracted using a plant set up in the disused City Road tube station. The scheme began almost 100 years after the station was closed in 1922.
Meanwhile, tube passengers have less stifling heat in the tunnels. How cool is that?
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