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  • Enfield’s North Middlesex hospital campus is just over the border from Haringey, and is well used by Haringey residents. It needs a considerable amount of heat – and also cooling – so initiatives to be as friendly to the climate as possible and have reliable low cost, low carbon heating and cooling are welcome. Funding from the Community Energy Fund were awarded to Power Up North London to investigate how much heat could be extracted across the site and reused, with a requirement to keep the local community informed.

    The first event was on Saturday 29th March at the nearby Angel Yard off Fore St.

    Power Up North London partnered with Enfield Climate Action Forum (Encaf) and Haringey Climate Forum (HCF) to take part in the Spring Swap and Sell event, hand out information, LED bulbs and window film and explain about Enfield’s plans for the heat network from the nearby Edmonton incinerator and todays low carbon heat solutions.

    Passers by were given information flyers and free LED bulbs and window film to help with saving energy to minimise their bills, including contact details for the HEET scheme. There was a quiz about kWh use in return for chocolat prizes and they heard about Enfield’s plans for heat in the Borough from when the new incinerator is commissioned until 2050.

    Enfield’s Local Area Energy Plan expects 78,800 Enfield buildings to be progressively connected to this heat network, piped from the Edmonton Incinerator by 2050. With a 7,989 buildings not on these routes having individual Air Source Heat Pumps.  The display showed illustrated pictures of alternative low carbon technologies, (not considered by Enfield) such as:

    For Estates and Campusses

    • Shared Ground Loops, with small individual small heat pumps, as at Enfield Wash from companies including Kensa and Qvantum.
    • Shared Air Source Heat Pumps, such as planned for Brent Cross
    • Heat Recovery from chillers and Data Centres, as being investigated for North Middlesex hospital (and see Brent Cross above)
    • Heat from tube lines, such as Bunhill Row (where tube lines near demand)
    • Heat from nearby reservoirs eg Portsmouth Water (no concrete plans for reservoirs near Enfield or Haringey)

    For individual Buildings

    • Air Source Heat Pumps eg Urban Cooling
    • Ground Source Heat Pumps
    • Tight insulation with Mechanical Ventilation Heat Recovery eg 2 stage MVHR
    • Electric space heating eg Tepeo
    • Electric water heating eg Solar Assisted Heat Pumps
    • Infrared heat from walls, ceilings, floors or light fitting eg Herschel

    Solar options to power electric heating/cooling solutions

    https://embed.theguardian.com/embed/video/environment/video/2015/jul/22/sun-cool-down-earth-video

    Buildings that have roofs suitable for solar panels reduce the elctricity bills and carbon emissions for occupants. Where there is room for batteries, and a drive to park an electric vehicle the storing of electricity when there is surplus enables use ‘when the sun isn’t shining’ and saves the Country the need to enhance the grid, as gas and oil are phased out.

    Where there is suitable local land for solar panels the land can continue to be used for sheep grazing and other arable purposes. eg Lighthouse’s happy sheep.

     

     

     

     

     

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