Residents of a village near Falmouth are being encouraged to switch to a sustainable ground source heating system as part of a new renewable heating project that has been desccribed as a UK first of this scale. Local company, Kensa Utilities, has been awarded a £6m grant by the European Regional Development Fund (ERDF) to part-fund ‘Heat the Streets’, an £8.7 million Cornish renewable heating project, the initial stage of which will pioneer a Heat Pump Village in Stithians. After a competitive bidding process, Stithians Village was chosen for the first phase of the ground-breaking initiative, due to its favourable geology, engaged community energy partnership and the fact that, like many rural areas, the whole village is off the gas network.