Oxford Brookes has become the first UK-based university to complete the operational installation of an advanced technology heating system which is predicted to reduce carbon emissions on campus by 20%.
The brand new, state-of-the-art Geo-Exchange Heating System has been installed on the University’s Gipsy Lane site in Headington, Oxford. It will provide approximately 1.2GW of heating per year and replace fossil fuels which have been used until now.
The system is based on a collection of 14 coaxial boreholes, each of which circulates an environmentally friendly glycol in a sealed loop at depths of over 200m, to extract from and store energy in the ground.
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