Meet the key players: Bouygues, the Cambridgeshire County Council, Bioregional, and more to learn from their initiatives.
Swaffham Prior has led the way in the UK, to be the first village to develop a rural heat network. The mix of air source and ground source heat pumps have capacity to supply 1.7MW of heat to 300 homes located in Swaffham Prior.
The Swaffham Prior Heat Network project was started by Swaffham Prior Community Land Trust, to address fuel poverty and local environmental issues caused by the village’s reliance on oil heating.
The heat network predominantly serve older housing, with there being few non-domestic properties within Swaffham Prior. The majority of the newer housing is to the north east and slightly separated from the village and has not be considered for connection due to low heat loads, nearly new boilers / ASHP and the extra distance from the energy centre.
