Scottish Government sets aside $6.6 million for district heating
Edinburgh, Scotland, UK (source: flickr/ kyz, creative commons)
Alexander Richter
7 Mar 2014
Scottish government sets aside an additional $6.6 million for the development of district heating systems, which is supposed to help geothermal and solar heating projects and fighting increasing energy costs to consumers. Total funding for the next two years is around $17 million.
Reported locally, the Scottish Government plans to fund an additional £4 million ($6.6 million) towards the development of district heating networks.
The funding is supposed to help both geothermal and solar heating projects.
Scotland targets a goal of 40,000 homes to be supplied by low carbon and affordable heat through district heating until 2020.
In a comment Scotlands Minister for Energy Fergus Ewing said, that the government wants to support households in Scotland affected by increasing costs for energy and heat. The funding now announced is to help take the right steps in the direction of bringing down costs for consumers.
“Scotland is an energy rich nation where heat accounts for over half of all energy we use, with an estimated £2.6 billion a year being spent on heating and cooling in Scotland.”
The amount takes the total funding for the next two years to £10.5 million ($17 million).
Source: Energy Live News
