Anthony Harrington, The Herald Scotland
Summary
Fife Council has begun work on one of Scotland’s largest district heat networks. The scheme, which has already attracted a great deal of attention and interest, is fairly unique as it utilises the availability of an existing large biomass combined heat and power plant currently owned by RWE.
As Ross Tulloch, programme manager for Glenrothes Energy Network at the Council explains, the opportunity to work towards a district heating network for council buildings began in talks with RWE, who originally installed the biomass boiler for the nearby Tullis Russell paper mill.
“The scheme matured through detailed discussions and feasibility studies over the course of a few years. The council then managed to secure funding for the scheme, which we estimate has total costs in the region of £23.9 million. RWE are in partnership with us on this project, and they have committed £13.573m, which was used to secure repayable assistance of £8.5m from the Scottish Government’s Low Carbon Infrastructure Transition Programme (LCITP), which is co-funded by the European Regional Development Fund” Tulloch comments.
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