Low Carbon Infrastructure Transition Programme: capital projects - March 2024

Zero Carbon Affordable Homes

Project Organisation:

LAR Housing Trust

Technology type(s):

Shared-ground loop heat pumps and thermal storage

Location:

Fountainbridge, Edinburgh

Grant value:

£128,283

Predicted completion date:

April 2024

Project description:

The project will install a shared group loop array heating system with ground source heat pumps and high efficiency heat batteries to serve 14 properties (10 affordable flats and 4 houses) in Fountainbridge, Edinburgh. The 10 flats included in the project will then be made available for mid-market rent.

The project is predicted to produce carbon savings of 47,560 kg CO₂e when compared to business-as-usual scenarios when it commissions in April 2024.