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Low carbon heat produced on the Olympic site is to be used in homes and businesses in Stratford High Street.
The London Development Agency and London Thames Gateway Development Corporation are to provide £480,000 to Cofely, the energy services company of GDF Suez, to install hot water pipework connecting the energy centres on the Olympic Park and Stratford City through to Stratford High Street and beyond.
This will mean that in future developers can tap into the low carbon heat source provided by the two energy centres rather than building their own combined heat and power plants.
Cofely’s Energy Centre on the Olympic Park is the largest energy centre scheme to be built so far in the UK.
The Energy Centre is providing efficient low-carbon heating and cooling across the site for the Games and for the new buildings and communities that will develop after 2012 through a district heating network.
London Development Agency Director of Projects Martin Powell said: "District heating networks are a simple and effective technology that captures surplus heat and delivers it to homes and buildings to provide their heating and hot water requirements."
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