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Mini power station plan for Croydon town centre
Published: 2010-06-24 10:25:51
A mini power station could be built in the centre of Croydon as part of a £55m council plan to sell its own heat and electricity.
(Sourced from Croydon Guardian.)
The District Energy (DE) scheme would involve setting up a small-scale plant near the current council headquarters at Taberner House.
A sprawling network of pipes would connect it to the council’s planned new £145m headquarters in Fell Road and developments at Taberner House and College Green.
The council hopes to raise about £7m per year from selling heat and electricity to town centre businesses, but only expects to be making half that figure when the first phase of the scheme comes online in 2015. Further extensions are then planned for Ruskin Square, Dingwall Road and the Whitgift and Centrale shopping centres, as well as the Home Office buildings in Wellesley Road by 2025.
Croydon Green Party spokesman Shasha Khan said the scheme would be a “significant improvement” on the borough’s energy usage, but questioned what the new plant would use as fuel.
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