The Energyst
Summary
Coal mines as heat sources took another step forward this week a councillors approved an ambitious municipal district heating scheme.
South Tyneside’s hybrid Viking Energy Network aims to use water pumped from 300 metres below the former Hebburn Colliery combined with heat pumps, solar generation and a CHP unit. The scheme will be sited on the Tyne near Jarrow.
Clean heat for eleven council-owned buildings, including a residential tower block, is expected to deliver benefits of £150,000 a year, benefitting the authority and fuel-poor tenants.
The Viking network is priced at £7 million, half of it secured from the EU’s Regional Development Fund. Durham University and the Coal Authority are South Tyneside’s partners. Later this month, councillors will set terms for appointing a contractor.
Cllr Joan Atkinson, council cabinet lead for Area Management and Community Safety, said: “Viking is a highly innovative scheme, and will be one of the first council minewater district heating systems in the UK”.
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