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UK City Set to be Heated by Volcano - Lifting Thousands Out of Fuel Poverty (Mirror.co.uk)

Stoke-on-Trent council and business leaders says the 350m-year-old rocks can provide a source of abundant and renewable energy

A 350 million-year-old volcano could soon be heating one of the largest cities in the Midlands.

Less than two miles beneath Stoke-on-Trent, Staffs, is a layer of rocks heating water to up to 105 degrees Celsius.

Experts think it is so hot because it is linked to volcanic activity back in the Devonian period.

Now council and business leaders believe this source of abundant and renewable energy can solve rising fuel costs faced by residents and employers.

Stoke-on-Trent City Council’s £52 million plans for a geothermal district heating network (DHN) involves bringing hot water to the surface through a borehole and transferring the heat to clean water.

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