The first public buildings in Worthing, West Sussex, will be connected to the low carbon district heating scheme in 2025.
A seaside town’s council has launched a project to roll out a heat network that will offer climate-friendly heating to all its homes and buildings by 2050.
Heat networks use a centralised source of heat – anything from a large heat pump drawing energy from water or air to waste heat from a data centre – and pipe it to nearby buildings where it is used to heat rooms and water.Heat networks remove the need for individual heat pumps, boilers or hot water tanks in properties, providing heating and hot water from the piped heat through a heat exchanger which for a home is around the same size as a small gas boiler and can be individually controlled.
Construction will start in July and the first buildings are set to be connected by summer 2025, including Worthing Town Hall, Worthing Hospital, the Assembly Hall, Portland House, Worthing Museum and Art Gallery, and the Connaught Theatre, the project’s backers said. The first phase of Worthing heat network received more than £7 million funding from the Department for Energy Security and Net Zero which unlocked £40 million of investment from Hemiko, the company said.
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