Council plans England’s first sewage-powered heating scheme
Plans to heat more than 2,000 homes using energy recovered from the sewage treatment process have been unveiled by Kingston Council.
Under the plans by the council and Thames Water, heat recovered from Hogsmill sewage works will be captured, concentrated and supplied to local buildings from a state-of-the-art energy centre.
Op to seven gigawatt hours of low carbon heat per year could be supplied via a sealed network of pipes to the district heating system at the new Cambridge Road Estate.
The scheme is the first of its kind in England and could be scaled-up to heat homes across the UK is successful.
By Press Association 2021
Thames Water says the project may provide green heating to more than 2,000 homes in Kingston in Greater London (Tim Ockenden/PA Images)
Thousands of homes could be heated by waste from their local sewage works as part of England’s first “poo power” scheme.
Thames Water says its project has the potential to provide clean, green heating to more than 2,000 new homes within the Cambridge Road Estate in Kingston.
It is expected to become a model for similar schemes elsewhere in the UK in a bid to reduce millions of tonnes of carbon emissions, the company says.
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By Press Association 2021
Thames Water says the project may provide green heating to more than 2,000 homes in Kingston in Greater London (Tim Ockenden/PA Images)
Thousands of homes could be heated by waste from their local sewage works as part of England’s first “poo power” scheme.
Thames Water says its project has the potential to provide clean, green heating to more than 2,000 new homes within the Cambridge Road Estate in Kingston.
It is expected to become a model for similar schemes elsewhere in the UK in a bid to reduce millions of tonnes of carbon emissions, the company says.
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