Hot water pipes can be connected to almost any heat source, and while pricey to install, networks like this could be appealing to the 1.1 million, predominantly rural, homes off the gas grid and still dependent on oil.
But what about using the wasted heat from all those existing power stations? In southeast London, just next to the Millwall Football Club ground, sits a massive energy from waste plant.
Run by Veolia, it burns unrecycled black-bag waste to make electricity. Some of the spare heat goes to 2,000 neighbouring homes, and they want to attach 18,000 more. Tommy Folliard, head of energy recovery operations, said:"This is a low carbon solution as it replaces the need to have fossil fuels such as gas used to heat those homes. and energy from waste plants displace the need of sending that waste to landfill."There is no escaping the fact that while energy from waste plants do reduce landfill, they still emit a lot of CO2 and concerns over local air pollution.
But using their heat reduces emissions elsewhere as connected homes use their own boiler a lot less or may not need one at all. Domestic gas boilers are meant to be phased out in Britain, yet they are still being installed and in the European Union it is estimated that a new boiler goes in every eight seconds.
Attaching pipes to many homes and businesses is a big infrastructure task with a lot of digging and disturbance but when fossil fuels are scarce, polluting and expensive it seems odd to be letting so much of their power vanish up the chimney.
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