Funding awarded for innovative scheme to keep thousands of homes warm with waste heat from data centres
Posted 03.11.23
Mayor of London: Further reading
The Mayor of London's development corporation (OPDC) has been awarded £36 million from the government's Green Heat Network Fund (GHNF) to harness waste heat from the cooling of several data centres.
The innovative project is the first of its kind to secure GHNF support and will provide low carbon heating captured from data centres into buildings. It forms part of a wider £65m award from the GHNF to five projects across the UK.
Data centres offer a predictable supply of low grade heat, which is often wasted and just rejected into the atmosphere. As a result of this scheme, the wasted heat will instead be distributed to a number of energy centres, where it will supply heat pumps that then raise the temperature to Low Temperature Hot Water.
This will then be piped via a traditional steel network to a mixture of new and existing residential buildings.
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