LOCAL ENERGY CHALLENGE FUND
Alloa Waste Heat Recovery and Distribution - Clackmannanshire Council
To establish a district heating network in Alloa, serving homes, businesses and public buildings,
based on waste heat recovered from the town's O-I glass factory.
Clyde Gateway Community Renewable Energy Initiative - Clyde Gateway Developments Ltd
A partnership between Scottish Water Horizons, SSE and Link Group Ltd, supported by Glasgow and
Glasgow Caledonian Universities to recover heat from wastewater to deliver local energy for priority
regeneration areas within the Clyde Gateway area.
Wellpark (Glasgow) – Community Heat and Power Project, Craighall Energy Ltd
A large, highly innovative and sustainable community energy scheme which will bring together
stakeholders from Government, Local Authority, Further Education and private industry to develop a
localised not-for-profit business model to supply buildings within Glasgow City Centre.
Large Scale ASHP District Heating Exemplar - Glasgow Housing Association (GHA)
A technological exemplar of off-grid district heating to homes in multi-storey blocks in South Glasgow,
demonstrating the utilisation of a large scale Air Source Heat Pump (ASHP), phase change material
energy storage and solar PV.
Linlithgow Energy Corridor - “Heat from the Street”, Linlithgow Natural Grid
To capture heat from waste water flowing beneath the Linlithgow streets through heat pumps
powered by solar electricity from the roof of a block of Linlithgow's Vennel flats, to create the
Linlithgow Energy Corridor.
River Tay Heat Pump District Heating - Perth and Kinross Council
To demonstrate that it is possible to safely use water heat pumps to capture renewable energy from
an ecologically sensitive river such as the Tay, to supply heat to serve the city’s new food and drink
park, Council buildings and homes.
Caol District Heating Scheme - Highland Council
To provide low carbon, sustainable, affordable heat via an innovative Water Source Heat Pump
district heating network to Highland Council houses within the Caol community.
Insch Renewable Energy Consortium for Energyzing Insch
To develop a community energy system linking local energy demand with local renewable generation
in a rural area of Aberdeenshire – helping to reduce electricity costs.
GEOTHERMAL ENERGY CHALLENGE FUND
Aberdeen Exhibition and Conference Centre
To conduct a feasibility study for the installation of a deep geothermal single well system to provide
heat to the new Centre and associated buildings.
Guardbridge, Fife
To explore the geothermal potential under a brownfield site to provide heat to on-site industries and
the local community.
Hartwood, North Lanarkshire
To develop a fully operational minewater geothermal district heating system which could act as an
exemplar of how to transform farm economics and transfer benefits to local communities.
Hill of Banchory, Aberdeenshire
To explore the viability of adding geothermal energy from hot dry and hot wet rocks to the existing
renewable heat network that is already serving the local communities.