HCA commits funding to low-carbon energy schemes
Projects to build a new generation of eco-friendly power plants and connect them to housing estates have been today given an £8.8 million funding boost by the Homes and Communities Agency.
Seven schemes have been allocated a shared of the HCA’s low-carbon infrastructure programme. They are:
- £0.5 million for pipes to connect a combined heat and power unit to three high density housing estates in Hackney
- £3 million to help pay for a string of projects including the creation of an eco-friendly power plant, pipework and heat spines for a combined heat and power system in Greenwich.
- £1.1 million to link 700 new homes in Rowner, Gosport to a CHP plant.
- £0.8 million to extend an on-site biomass CHP plant to power 195 zero-carbon homes and a neighbouring secondary school in Hanham Hall, South Gloucestershire.
- £0.78 million to join the Manton and Reynolds tower blocks in Birmingham to a biomass energy plant to the nearby Holte School.
- £1.6 million to develop using a ground source heat pump to supply heating and hot water to 154 homes on the Wood End, Henley Green and Manor Farm estates in Coventry.
- £1 million to connect 280 homes in Aire Valley, Leeds to a CHP source.
The low-carbon infrastructure programme is a joint effort by the HCA, the Homes and Communities Agency and the Department of Energy and Climate Change
Sir Bob Kerslake, chief executive of the HCA said: ‘This funding will help ensure that more people have access to energy that is both less harmful to the environment than traditional sources and lower cost for them.
‘We look forward to using the lessons we learn from these innovative projects in our future work at the HCA, to help create and support sustainable places around the country.’
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Jim Paton | 26/08/2009 11:36 pm
CHP amounts to getting more bang for a buck out of existing fossil fuels (usually imported gas, coal or oil) so can hardly be described as "low carbon". It is getting a little more from the carbon emissions, but not reducing them. The carbon footprint of their importation doesn't seem to enter into the calculation.
As for the pushing of biomass, I despair! What biomass material? Grown on what land? To the exclusion of which other crops? With what social effects? At what environmental cost (including inputs, transport and carbon and other emissions)? Biomass generation which doesn't produce negative answers to these questions is possible but its scope is very small and confined to certain areas.
More government greenwash and delusional techno-fixery via the HCA, I think.
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Clare Jane Mcvety | 13/03/2010 10:56 am
I've got a idea for you why don't you put two fans in the drains and make power for the house. So there electric generator in the house so the power can stay in generator till you need it. there is a cabel wire going to the house to send the power. And if you want only use the sewish planes that are build already you could put a fan in that and send power out like that. I've got a drawing if you want it. Thank you Clare Mcvety. Hope I hope I'VE told you right
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