Ener-Vate - Mersey Heat

Peel’s Liverpool Waters is a 30-year vision to transform the city’s northern docks, bringing the 60-hectare site to life once again, creating a bustling, lively, attractive place to live and work across five different neighbourhoods. Peel has embedded sustainability across its £5bn waterfront scheme and has appointed Ener-Vate to develop and oversee delivery of Mersey Heat low carbon energy infrastructure. Mersey Heat will contribute towards the UK Government’s C02 targets and help to make Liverpool a greener place to live, work and visit. 

Some key facts: 

• The Energy Centre is home to one of the UK’s largest water source heat pumps, taking heat from the water in the nearby Leeds/Liverpool Canal and using it to heat surrounding homes and businesses via a 6km district heating network. 
• Saving 2000 tonnes of carbon emissions every year - the equivalent of taking 1,000 cars off the roads. 
• The district heating network will provide low carbon heat and hot water for up to 6,700 homes and 1.3 million square feet of commercial space at the Liverpool Waters development as well as wider domestic and commercial buildings across Liverpool. 
• The initial phase of the project could supply 20GWh of heat every year with planning permission in place to expand the project to supply around 45GWh (the equivalent of supplying 17,000 new homes with heating and hot water). 

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