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The LDA announced last week what it called “pioneering plans for the UK’s first scheme to harness waste heat from a power station to heat homes and help save carbon emissions”.
The statement referred to plans to capture excess heat produced in the generation of electricity at Barking Power Station and use this “to supply heat directly to properties through a hot water network for heating and hot water needs”.
Good idea? Yep. Pioneering? Definitely not.
Anyone who knows anything about that London icon Battersea Power Station would know that the plant supplied hot water and heating to homes across the Thames via the so-called Pimlico District Heating Scheme. And when was that, the great man hears readers ask? Well, back in the 1950s before most of the team at the LDA were born.
The great man notes that the Barkantine Heat and Power scheme in east London, opened several years ago, is another example of a power plant in the capital that provides heat. It supplies hot water to neighbouring properties in Tower Hamlets.
Time for the LDA to do its homework and develop a sense of history? Disconnector thinks so.
