The project is to discover if Cardiff could be sitting on top of a potential underground heating system and has received a funding award from Innovate UK of over £250,000 to do this. Such technology is new to Britain but has been successfully used in Norway, where water from fjords is used as a heat source.
This new partnership project between Cardiff council, Cardiff-based WDS Green Energy and the British Geological Survey aims to show how heat within shallow groundwater under the capital could be used to provide a renewable low carbon heating source for homes and businesses in the city.
The project will take the temperature of the water stored underneath the city, monitor heat lost from underground structures and then design and build a prototype portable testing module which is based on ground source heat pump technology.
It will then investigate whether the technology could be built up to support the design and delivery of district scale heat networks in the future.
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