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Households and businesses in Stratford, London, are set to benefit from the energy generated at the Olympic site under new plans.
Using £480,000 from the London Development Agency and London Thames Gateway Development Corporation, hot water pipes will be laid connecting the Olympic Park and Stratford City to the High Street and nearby.
This will mean that future developers will not need to build their own combined heat and power plants, the government said.
The Energy Centre at the Olympic Park is the largest in the UK and will provide low carbon heating during the Games next year, as well as provide a district heating network for the site’s future residents.
Martin Powell, director of projects at the London Development Agency, commented: “District heating networks are a simple and effective technology that captures surplus heat and delivers it to homes and buildings to provide their heating and hot water requirements. This investment will mean Stratford’s future growth can benefit from low carbon heat.”
Plans set out by the Mayor of London hope to generate 25 per cent of London’s energy locally by 2025.
Posted by Mark Stephens
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