Oxford heat network gets £21m government funding
Project manager for 1Energy, Dan Goodchild, said: "The vast majority of the heat, 70 or 80% of it, will come from low carbon air source, water source or data centre source heat pumps."Though he admitted gas might be needed for "resilience purposes, for either when it's particularly cold or when the heat pumps need maintenance".Nick Eyre, chair of the Zero Carbon Oxfordshire Partnership and emeritus professor of energy and climate policy at the University of Oxford described it as "a good use of government money"."Heat Networks are going to be required to decarbonise some of the denser populated parts of the country... and that's particularly true in Oxford [which has] a lot of old heritage buildings which are quite difficult to decarbonise," he said.
A similar but much smaller scheme has been running between the John Radcliffe and Churchill hospitals since 2017, after a 1.6-mile (2.2km) pipe was laid under several roads in Headington.Trevor Payne, director of estates at the University of Oxford said: "The potential benefits of a wider heat network are huge, both for the University - the project could help us achieve our ambitious target of reaching net zero by 2035 - and for the community as a whole."Jerry Woods, director of estates and campus services at Oxford Brookes University said: "This supports our aims as a member of the Zero Carbon Oxford Partnership in Oxford becoming a Net Zero City by 2040 and also supports the university in reaching its Net Zero carbon goals potentially faster and at lower cost than possible to do alone."
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