Members of the council’s strategic planning board welcomed the proposal to provide the alternative energy source on the MMU campus at Crewe Green Road but most raised concerns about the noise from drilling during the construction.
Stephen Cooke, of Geothermal Engineering, said: “This project will be the first of its kind in the country. It’s an innovative use of geothermal deep drilling techniques. It’s a single vertical well that has fairly high temperatures down at the bottom, about 60 or 70 degrees, and that’s hot enough, where we can draw that water up, and put it straight into a normal building heating system without any intermediate heating above ground.”
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