Balmoral could get hot water from geothermal scheme
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| Balmoral Castle (Wiki Commons) |
A new geothermal heating scheme is set to roll out in Royal Deeside, which promises to heat homes by pumping 45C water up from underground reservoirs.
The program will initially heat homes in the town of Banchory, Aberdeenshire, and if successful could be extended to the “wider area”. The Queen’s private estate at Balmoral, Ballater, is only 25 miles away.
Geological surveys are already being carried out to see if homes could benefit from the heating scheme, modelled on a system currently being used to heat 120,000 homes in Paris.
The scheme will drill deep boreholes into the earth, pumping up water from reservoirs encased in granite. The hot water will be piped up to heat homes in the Hill of Banchory area, before the cooled water is returned underground for reheating.
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