Sustainable Low-Carbon Heat Network For Meeting Woking Town Centre's Needs in London

In this article, Dr Marianne Furtado de Nazareth highlights that sustainable low-carbon heat network at Woking Town Centre in UK, London is a wonderful project as it will allow Woking to grow and develop in a sustainable way, utilizing low-carbon heat to meet the town's needs.

- Dr Marianne Furtado de Nazareth

This scheme was designed with long-term growth in mind and will be able to meet Woking's energy needs well into the future, providing a resilient, low-carbon energy infrastructure.

Every evening, I would drive down with my son to Victoria Place to collect Natalie, his daughter, who was dropped off there, by the school bus, in Woking, London. And every time I would wonder at the tall, very noticeable towers we passed, painted with large numbers-01 and 02. Checking up on the place I found it was the Poole Road Energy Centre, situated in the Woking Town Centre.

Woking Town Centre was erected by ThamesWey Energy, an energy provider in Woking, UK, that supplies low-carbon, renewable energy to residential, commercial, and public sector customers. That was music to my ears and the project was being delivered for ThamesWey by Galliford Try. The mechanical and engineering consultants on the project were Hulley & Kirkwood and Vital Energi who have been working on the project since 2018 and recently won the contract to undertake the mechanical and electrical services installations.

You might ask what a heat network is and why create one? A heat network is a distribution system of superinsulated pipework, which delivers heat to buildings. The heat is generated and pumped from an energy centre, which can use any technology to create heat. Heat networks have a major role in creating a carbon neutral future, recognized by the UK government's independent advisory group, the Committee on Climate Change (CCC): "Around 18 per cent of heat must come from heat networks by 2050, if the UK is to meet its carbon targets costeffectively" (CCC, 2015).