Mar 8 2004
New energy-efficient schemes to heat homes, schools and other public buildings received more than £6million today, adding to the £22million already handed out to projects under the government's Community Energy programme.
Eight projects in England, Scotland and Wales delivering community heating will get government grants, helping to reduce energy bills and combat both greenhouse gases and fuel poverty. The schemes between them will cost more than £32million and cut carbon emissions by almost 4,000 tonnes a year.
The awards include £13,991 to Buckinghamshire County Council to heat its Environmental Education Centre using saw mill waste. Walsall Metropolitan Borough Council gets £500,000 to heat flats and a primary school in one of England's most deprived wards, with grants also to the Family Housing Association (£35,000) and Southampton University (£30,000).
Other grant winners are Edinburgh University, Aberdeen University, Clydebank Housing Association and Midlothian Council, whose scheme will involve the first extraction of minewater heat on a large scale in Scotland.
Source: DEFRA