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Funding from the Community Energy Fund were awarded to Power Up North London to investigate how much heat could be extracted across the North Middlesex hospital campus and reused, with a requirement to keep the local community informed. The hospital campus is just over the border from Haringey, hence this first event to tell Haringey and Enfield residents about the project to be as friendly to the climate as possible and have reliable low cost, low carbon heating and cooling at this large site.
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 at Angel Yard off Fore St. They handed out information and explained about the North Middlesex project and Enfield’s plans for a heat network from the nearby Edmonton incinerator – together with todays low carbon solutions for heat.
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 and there was a quiz about kWh use in return for chocolat prizes.
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. 7,989 buildings not on these routes were expected to have 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 that replaces a gas boiler
- 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 Every Hour enough Sunlight blasts the Earth to power Humanity for a Year. see vid
Local Community Energy Groups, such as Power Up North London and En10ergy can help with raising finance and expertise to install solar panels on community buildings, such as Places of Worship, Community Centres and Schools.
Buildings that have roofs suitable for solar panels can 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.
The stall offered energy advice to 25 people, and the 6 people who took the energy quiz all said they learnt a lot from it.
- Red Rebels silent emotions
- The Treasury gambles on an overheated planet
- Green Wraiths for a Green Earth
- Tree Protectors in action
- Banshees against incineration
- Tufton St firms finance disaster
Emergency
I am sorry my friends
I didn’t want to startle you, when you were having such a fine time, but this is an emergency
Your house is all on fire, and if we do not rise up now all this will turn to ashes
Drilling for oil, and digging for coal, and now they also fracking for shale/
Nationwide, in the countryside, they cut the whole forest down, yeah it’s ecocide!
- Details of the North London march
- Current technology could be used instead of incineration
- The plans choose to burn everything from black bags instead of retrieving valuable recycling material
- The green claims ignore the emissions from burning biogenic feedstock
- Acciona is the only company left in the tender for the incinerator
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