A £2.2 million grant from the Government’s Green Heat Network Fund will help the University of Reading reduce the carbon footprint of its entire built estate by 10%. The grant, which is being match funded by the University, will be used to fund the installation of a large water source heat pump in the University’s Energy Centre. The Energy Centre provides heating and hot water to 15 buildings on the Whiteknights campus through an underground district heating network (DHN), currently powered by a combination of a Combined Heat and Power (CHP) engine and gas boilers.
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