Sarah Townsend
The developer is building a facility to provide low carbon heat and hot water to up to 9,000 homes and 4m sq ft of commercial space, on a site between Great Howard Street and Sherwood Street.
Liverpool City Council approved the plans from Peel NRE, the energy arm of Peel L&P, yesterday, paving the way for construction to start on site this summer.
The facility is part of the developer’s Mersey Heat district heat network and is expected to save around 4,200 tonnes of carbon for the city per year, mainly through primary use of water source heat pumps and thermal stores to provide heat across the network.