NORTH East Scotland College has connected to Aberdeen Heat & Power’s City Centre District Heating System in a deal worth £1 million.
The contract between AH&P’s commercial division DEAL (District Energy Aberdeen Ltd) and the college sees the delivery of both heat and hot water to the City Centre Campus at Gallowgate.
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Delivering the service involved extending the network from West North Street to NESCol’s Spring Garden entrance, with work taking around 10 months to complete.
Ian Davidson, AH&P chief executive officer, said: ‘Despite the constraints we’ve faced this year, we have delivered this major project on time and on budget.
“This connection will lead to a significant reduction in carbon emissions while delivering the college a competitively-priced, energy-efficient tariff.’
Neil Cowie, NESCol principal, said: “Adopting innovative solutions to reduce our carbon footprint is an important element of North East Scotland College’s ongoing commitment to increasing sustainability.
‘We are already playing a lead role — not only regionally but nationally — and this partnership with Aberdeen Heat & Power will make a significant contribution towards our aim of reducing carbon emissions and our impact on the environment.”
The next phase will see a new combined heat and power (CHP) plant built on the Gallowgate campus which will allow AH&P to extend the City Centre District Heating System further into the city.
Also now connected to AH&P service in another DEAL contract is the newly refurbished Aberdeen Science Centre, which came online in November.
The science centre’s supply comes from the adjacent Beach Leisure Centre Energy Centre which is in turn directly linked to AH&P’s main city centre generation plant at Seaton.
Mr Davidson said: ‘As we had pipework already installed close by, connecting the science centre only involved an extra 50 metres and was therefore a very easy installation for us.’
The contract — worth £50,000 to DEAL — will in time deliver CO2 emission savings of 79% to the science centre compared to a conventional gas boiler.
Bryan Snelling, Aberdeen Science Centre chief executive officer, said: “We have been able to make the most of the very latest technologies to ensure the building is both as interactive and as energy efficient as it can be.”
