District Heating Scheme Using Minewater Geothermal Energy Recovery – Renewable Energy Magazine

Photo: South Tyneside Council

The ground-breaking renewable energy scheme aims to cut annual carbon dioxide emissions by hundreds of tons per year through the construction of a district heating scheme for council owned buildings (including a residential tower block) using the previously untapped resource of geothermal energy in the abandoned mineworkings of the former Hebburn Colliery; a first of its kind.

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