Vital Energi has been awarded more than £22m from the Green Heat Network Fund for the commercialisation and construction of the Hull East District Heat Network, which will use waste heat from industry, with Phase 1 utilising heat from the Saltend Chemicals Park.
The heat network will provide low carbon heating to 14 council buildings and a mixture of industrial customers, helping to decarbonise one of the UK’s industrial hotspots.
As part of the network, Hull East is also hoping to secure green solar energy to help power the network whilst feeding energy into other customers across Yorkshire Energy Park, a next generation energy and technology business park currently in development.
Construction of the heat network is expected to begin later this year, and could expand to supply further connections and use using other renewable heat sources across the energy park once completed.
Vital Energi MD Mike Cooke said: “Taking waste heat from Saltend Chemicals Park situated on the Yorkshire Energy Park, we aim to decarbonise commercial and residential buildings across Hull, bringing them closer to a net zero future with low carbon heat and hot water.”
Lots of waste energy is generated in various industrial processes as well as in our daily activities. Manufacturing and human waste disposal processes produce waste heat as a by-product which can be harnessed to produce low-cost, low carbon heating. Today, funding from the Green Heat Network Fund continues to enable innovative solutions like these to be deployed.
