Title
Ground Heat network Strategy at City Scale

CoPED ID
ffe8e706-b461-41c2-ac3d-5e7f37325f46

Status
Closed


Value
£493,576

Start Date
April 30, 2015

End Date
April 29, 2016

Description

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In many parts of the UK and Europe geothermal energy stored in natural shallow underground water aquifers has the potential provide a safe, affordable, secure, and low-carbon source of heat for generations. Currently in the UK, ground source heat pump (GSHP) technology is only used by a small number of individual homes and businesses. By increasing GSHP capacity they can be used heat to entire streets via a smart network. Why has this not already been done? The technology for city scale networks is not yet developed and requires a new energy market based on large-scale GSHP capture and distribution networks. Before this can happen new technology needs to be developed and trialled to ensure systems are developed in a sustainable way. The potential champions of heat networks are Councils, who are tasked with approving planning consents for new developments. This highly innovative project, if funded, will design and build trial heat systems networks in less than 12 months, to prove that British GSHP network technology can be reliably deployed on an industrial scale in the UK. If successful, this new technology can be transferred to other UK cities and overseas markets.

David Tucker PM_PER

Subjects by relevance
  1. Technology
  2. Sustainable development
  3. Towns and cities
  4. Climate changes
  5. Heat pumps
  6. Technological development
  7. Europe
  8. Innovations
  9. Networks (societal phenomena)
  10. Geothermal energy
  11. Ground heat
  12. Telecommunications technology
  13. Enterprises

Extracted key phrases
  1. Ground Heat network Strategy
  2. Ground source heat pump
  3. British GSHP network technology
  4. Trial heat system network
  5. Heat network
  6. City scale network
  7. Smart network
  8. Distribution network
  9. New technology
  10. Natural shallow underground water aquifer
  11. New energy market
  12. UK city
  13. City Scale
  14. Europe geothermal energy
  15. Scale gshp capture

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