Lerwick District Heating and Energy Recovery Plant is a

district heating District heating (also known as heat networks or teleheating) is a system for distributing heat generated in a centralized location through a system of insulated pipes for residential and commercial heating requirements such as space heating a ...

scheme based in

Lerwick Lerwick (; non, Leirvik; nrn, Larvik) is the main town and port of the Shetland archipelago, Scotland. Shetland's only burgh, Lerwick had a population of about 7,000 residents in 2010. Centred off the north coast of the Scottish mainland ...

, The Lerwick District Heating Scheme is operated by Shetland Heat Energy and Power Ltd (SHEAP) while the Energy Recovery Plant (ERP)

Shetland Shetland, also called the Shetland Islands and formerly Zetland, is a subarctic archipelago in Scotland lying between Orkney, the Faroe Islands and Norway. It is the northernmost region of the United Kingdom. The islands lie about to the no ...

feeds into the scheme and is operated by the Shetland Islands Council. The main SHEAP offices are located close to the

Lerwick Power Station The main power supply for Shetland is provided by Lerwick Power Station, located in Gremista, northwest of Lerwick town centre. This is the principal source of electrical energy for Shetland, however currently about 20 MWe is provided by the S ...

along with a 12 MWh heat store. The scheme is one of the longest running schemes of its kind in the UK.

Heat distribution

The

scheme has over 30 km of mains pipes connecting over 1,200 properties. These properties range from hospitals, schools, care homes, leisure centre, industry, retail and housing.

Energy recovery plant

The energy recovery plant burns approximately 22,000 tonnes of waste per year from Shetland, Orkney and offshore and heats water for the district heating scheme.

References

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