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Exploring heat demand for homes on the coalfield
The Coal Authority and the Ordnance Survey (OS) have collaborated on an exciting project to understand the demand for heating across Great Britain’s coalfields, with a view to promoting and investigating how water in disused coal mines could be considered as a secure, low-carbon heat source to support former mining communities.
The purpose of this project was to improve our understanding of how buildings and people are distributed across the coalfields in Great Britain. The main driver for this was to support a national understanding of how much demand there could be for low carbon heat recovered from abandoned coal mines.
Working collaboratively with the OS, we recognised that by combining our data and expertise, we could create an open access application as a tool to support investigation and decision making surrounding mine water heat scheme deployments.
You can read more about the project here.
The Coal Authority’s interactive map viewer
The data from this project can be viewed on the mine water heat tab of our interactive viewer.
The map is a great place to start reviewing the opportunities in areas where you may be considering net zero solutions. To continue the discussion on how mine water heat could help decarbonise your project or to understand how specific mapping could help identify the best locations to consider contact us and speak to one of our team of Mine Heat specialists.