Welsh Government Cabinet Secretary Rebecca Evans has opened Wales' first commercial mine water heat scheme in Ammanford, showcasing low-carbon energy from former coal mines.
Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Housing and Local Government, Baroness Sharon Taylor of Stevenage, has visited the Mining Authority’s Dawdon mine water treatment scheme to see how mine water heat will power 750 low-carbon homes, a pioneering step for sustainable heat.
Excess heat recovered from the sewage treatment process could be used to power more than 2,000 homes thanks to a new carbon-cutting partnership between Thames Water and Kingston Council.
Heat harnessed from wastewater from Scottish Water's treatment works in Forthside is being processed through an on-site energy centre and then distributed along Stirling Council’s District Heat Network.