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Green Light for Liverpool Energy Centre

Source: https://www.insidermedia.com/

Plans to develop an energy centre in Liverpool, which would heat up to 9,000 homes and four million sq ft of commercial space, have been approved.The Peel NRE facility between Great Howard Street and Sherwood Street is expected to save about 4,200 tonnes of carbon per year through the primary use of water source heat pumps and thermal stores.This would serve the company’s Mersey Heat district heat network.Also lined up are two 3MW water source heat pumps and a pair of thermal stores capable of holding 260 cubic metres of hot water.The project is part-funded by the Merseyside Pension Fund.Vital Energi is installing the Mersey Heat network on behalf of Peel NRE. Construction is expected to start in the summer.